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this time, the Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property shall reject the
application.
Article 115
A receipt recording the date on which the documents referred to in the third and fifth
paragraphs of Article 113 above have been provided shall be delivered to the
applicant or his agent immediately following the filing of the request.
Article 116
The applicant may at any time seek the correction of any mistakes in expression or
transcription or any substantive errors detected in the documents filed, with the
exception of the graphic or photographic reproductions of the industrial designs filed,
which may not be amended.
The request for correction referred to in the first paragraph of this Article shall be
submitted in writing and shall include the changes proposed.
Article 117
Any application filed for an industrial design which:
(1) does not meet the conditions of Article 103;
(2) does not meet the conditions of Articles 112 and 113;
(3) has not been corrected in accordance with Article 114;
shall be rejected.
The rejection of any application to file an industrial design must be substantiated and
notified to the applicant or his agent by registered letter with acknowledgement of
receipt. A reference to said rejection shall be entered in the National Register of
Industrial Designs referred to in the first paragraph
of Article 125 below. The rejection decision may be appealed before the Civil and
Commercial Chamber of the Court of First Instance of Djibouti within two months
from the notification.
Article 118
Where the application to file an industrial design is not rejected under Article 117
above, the industrial design shall be registered by the Djibouti Office of Industrial and
Commercial Property without prior examination as to the merits.
The date of registration shall be the date of filing.
Filing shall give rise to registration in the National Register of Industrial Designs
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 125 below.