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What is PCT-SAFE?

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What is PCT-SAFE?

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WIPO’s electronic filing software, PCT-SAFE, offers PCT users the means to prepare their international applications in electronic form and to file them either via secure online transmission or using physical media such as CD-R. The software can also be operated in PCT-EASY mode where applications are filed on paper, accompanied by the request form data and abstract on physical medium (diskette, CD-R, DVD-R). “The PCT-SAFE software supports all of the requirements of the basic common standard and certain alternatives available under Annex F. Use of the PCT-SAFE software is not mandatory but any applicant may choose to use it, in which case the receiving Office must accept the international application concerned (except where it has notified a transitional reservation under AIs Section 703(f) in that respect). Any receiving Office may also specify other filing software acceptable to it.” (Section 6 of Annex F [PDF] of the Administrative Instructions Under the PCT).