Publication
18 months after the filing date or the priority date if any, the international application is published by the International Bureau (IB) of WIPO, based at Geneva, Switzerland, in one of the ten "languages of publication": Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. [27] There is an exception to this general rule however: if 18 months after the priority date, the international application only designates the United States, then the application is not automatically published.