English: • for Contracting Parties which also examine for prior rights:  (a) following opposition by third parties............... three (b) ex officio............................................................... four  (2) Coefficient four shall also be applied to Contracting Parties which carry out ex officio searches for prior rights with an indication of the most significant prior rights.   Rule 38 Crediting of Individual Fees to the Accounts of the Contracting Parties Concerned   Any individual fee paid to the International Bureau in respect of a Contracting Party having made a declaration under Article 8(7)(a) of the Protocol shall be credited to the account of that Contracting Party with the International Bureau within the month following the month in the course of which the recording of the international registration, subsequent designation or renewal for which that fee has been paid was effected or the payment of the second part of the individual fee was recorded.   Chapter 9 Miscellaneous     Rule 39 Continuation of Effects of International Registrations in Certain Successor States   (1) Where any State ("the successor State") whose territory was, before the independence of that State, part of the territory of a Contracting Party ("the predecessor Contracting Party") has deposited with the Director General a declaration of continuation the effect of which is that the Agreement, the Protocol, or both the Agreement and the Protocol are applied by the successor State, the effects in the successor State of any international registration with a territorial extension to the predecessor Contracting Party which is effective from a date prior to the date fixed under paragraph (2) shall be subject to ▪ (i) the filing with the International Bureau, within six months from the date of a notice addressed for that purpose by the International Bureau to the holder of the international registration concerned, of a request that such international registration continue its effects in the successor State, and  (ii) the payment to the International Bureau, within the same time limit, of a fee of 41 Swiss francs, which shall be transferred by the International Bureau to the Office of the successor State, and of a fee of 23 Swiss francs for the benefit of the International Bureau.
French: Règle 36 Exemption de taxes Les inscriptions relatives aux données suivantes sont exemptes de taxes: ◦ i) la constitution d’un mandataire, toute modification concernant un mandataire et la radiation de l’inscription d’un mandataire, ii) toute modification concernant les numéros de téléphone et de télécopieur du titulaire, iii) la radiation de l’enregistrement international, iv) toute renonciation en vertu de la règle 25.1)a)iii), v) toute limitation effectuée dans la demande internationale elle-même en vertu de la règle 9.4)a)xiii) ou dans une désignation postérieure selon la règle 24.3)a)iv),  vi) toute demande faite par un Office en vertu de la première phrase de l’article 6.4) de l’Arrangement ou en vertu de la première phrase de l’article 6.4) du Protocole, vii) l’existence d’une action judiciaire ou d’un jugement définitif ayant une incidence sur la demande de base, sur l’enregistrement qui en est issu ou sur l’enregistrement de base, viii) tout refus selon la règle 17, la règle 24.9) ou la règle 28.3) ou toute déclaration selon la règle 17.5) ou 6), la règle 20bis.5) ou la règle 27.4) ou 5), ix) l’invalidation de l’enregistrement international, x) les informations communiquées en vertu de la règle 20, xi) toute notification en vertu de la règle 21 ou de la règle 23, xii) toute rectification du registre international.