Industrial Property Regulations, 2002 national application, shall be the date of filing of the international application under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. Conversion of refused regional application. 34. (1) A regional application in which Kenya is designated and that has been refused by the Secretariat of ARIPO shall, on request, be treated as an application under the Act if the Secretariat of ARIPO transmits to the Institute — (a) a request made by the applicant to the Secretariat of ARIPO that the application be treated, in Kenya, as an application under Kenyan law; and (b) a copy of the files relating to the application. (2) A request to have a regional application treated as an application under the Act shall be in Form IP 15. (3) The date of filing, for the purposes of the treatment of a regional application as a national application, shall be the date of filing of the regional application under the ARIPO Protocol. Publication of certain international and regional applications. 35. (1) The Managing Director shall publish — (a) an international application in which Kenya is designated within two months after the application enters the national phase; and (b) a regional application in which Kenya is designated within two months after Kenya is notified of being designated in the regional application under the ARIPO Protocol. (2) The publication of an application under paragraph (1) shall be in the Kenya Gazette or in the Industrial Property Journal. 25