In respect of any designated or elected State whose law provides for the grant of inventors' certificates, utility certificates, utility models, patents or certificates of addition, inventors' certificates of addition, or utility certificates of addition, the applicant may indicate, as prescribed in the Regulations, that his international application is for the grant, as far as that State is concerned, of an inventor's certificate, a utility certificate, or a utility model, rather than a patent, or that it is for the grant of a patent or certificate of addition, an inventor's certificate of addition, or a utility certificate of addition, and the ensuing effect shall be governed by the applicant's choice.
Glede vsake navedene ali izbrane države, katere zakon določa izdajo izumiteljskih spričeval, spričeval o koristnosti, uporabnih modelov, dopolnilnih patentov ali dopolnilnih spričeval, dopolnilnih izumiteljskih spričeval ali dopolnilnih spričeval o koristnosti, lahko prijavitelj v skladu s pravilnikom navede, da s svojo mednarodno prijavo zahteva za zadevno državo izdajo izumiteljskega spričevala, spričevala o koristnosti ali uporabnega modela, ne pa patenta, ali izdajo dopolnilnega patenta ali dopolnilnega spričevala, dopolnilnega izumiteljskega spričevala ali dopolnilnega spričevala o koristnosti; učinki, ki izhajajo iz te navedbe, so določeni z izbiro prijavitelja.