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filing receipt shall be issued and then made final after three months. If the correction
is not made, however, then a final and grounded rejection of the application shall be
issued.
If the application refers to drawings that are not included in the application, the Office
shall write to the applicant to invite him to provide the missing drawings. If the
applicant takes up the invitation, the application date considered shall be the date of
receipt of the missing drawings. Otherwise, the application date shall be considered
as the date the application was received, and any reference to those drawings shall
be considered null and void.
Article 32
Filing an application shall be subject to the payment of a set fee.
The applicant shall supply with his patent application the date and number of any
patent application that he or his legal predecessor has filed abroad ("foreign
application") in relation to the same invention, or essentially the same invention, as
the one claimed in the application filed with the Djibouti Office of Industrial and
Commercial Property.
The applicant shall be required to provide the Djibouti Office of Industrial and
Commercial Property with a copy of any final decision canceling the patent issued on
the basis of the foreign application referred to in the previous paragraph.
Article 33
After the application has been filed, a receipt stating the delivery date of the patent
application shall be immediately given to the applicant or his agent.
Article 34
The description of the invention shall disclose the invention in a way that is
sufficiently clear and complete to enable a person skilled in the art to carry it out.
In particular, the description of the invention shall:
(a) specify the technical field to which the invention relates;
(b) indicate the background art which, as far as known to the applicant, can be
regarded as useful for understanding the invention and the searching and
examination of the invention in the event of a dispute, and, preferably, cite the
documents reflecting such art. If the invention claimed has been developed or
obtained directly from genetic or biological resources obtained from a particular
source, or from the use of traditional knowledge obtained from a particular
community, the description shall indicate the source of these resources or
knowledge, as well as the way in which they have been obtained;