The Industrial Property Act, 2001 27 shall apply. Unsearched or unexamined international applications, etc. 50. (1) Where an international search report is not established or relates to only one or some of the claims of the international application, the Managing Director shall reject the international application or consider withdrawn claim or claims not covered by the report, as the case may be, except to the extent that the applicant satisfies him that the nonestablishment of the report in whole or in part was not justified. (2) Where the international search report relates to only one or some of the claims due to the applicant’s refusal to pay additional fees, those parts of the international application which consequently have not been searched shall be considered withdrawn unless the applicant divides out from the application as provided for in section 36(2) the parts concerned or satisfies the Managing Director that the invitation to pay the additional fees was not justified. (3) Where an international preliminary examination report with respect to an international application has been communicated to the Managing Director the following paragraphs shall apply:(a) where, in the case of lack of compliance with the requirements of unity of inventions, the international preliminary examination report indicates that the international preliminary examination was carried out on restricted claims, or was carried out on the main invention only, those parts of the international application indicated as not having been the subject of international preliminary examination shall be considered withdrawn unless the applicant divides out from the application as provided for in section 36 (2) the parts concerned or satisfies the Managing Director that the invitation of the international preliminary examining authority was not justified; and (b) where the international preliminary examination report states, with respect to the entire international application or one or some of its claims only, the opinion that a defect under Article 34(4)(a) of the Patent Co operation Treaty exists under the international application or the claim or claims, as the case may be, shall be considered withdrawn unless the applicant satisfies the Managing Director that the defects do not exist. (4)The Managing Director may refuse to grant a patent upon the application if it is apparent from an international search report or an international preliminary examination report that an invention claimed in an international application does not fulfil the requirements of novelty, unless the applicant either satisfies him that the requirements have been fulfilled or amends the claims in such a way that fulfils the requirements. Provisional protection of published international applications 51. (1) Relief against infringement may be sought in respect of acts committed before the grant of the patent but after the date of international publication under the Patent Co-operation Treaty, where the said international publication was effected in English. (2) If the international publications was effected in a language other than

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