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The Djibouti Office of Industrial and Commercial Property shall examine whether the
application meets the conditions provided for in Article 143.
If the Office establishes that, at the time the application is received, the conditions in
Article 143 have not been met, it must write to invite the applicant to make the
necessary correction within three months. If one of the elements listed in the second
paragraph of Article 143 is missing, the retained filing date shall then be the date
when the requested correction is received. However, if the correction is not made,
the application shall be considered not to have been filed.
Where the registration application for a mark contains the documents provided for in
this article, the request for the registration of a mark, as referred to above, shall be
entered in chronological order of filing in the National Register of Marks referred to in
the first paragraph of Article 156 below, with a date and number of filing.
Article 145
A receipt recording the date on which the documents referred to in Article 143 above
have been provided shall be delivered to the applicant or his agent immediately
following the filing of the request.
Article 146
Upon substantiated request, the applicant may at any time seek the correction of
mistakes in expression or transcription as well as substantive errors detected in the
documents filed, with the exception of the mark and the list of goods and services,
save to restrict or limit it, which may not be amended. Nonetheless, the applicant
may restrict or limit that list.
The requests for correction mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be
submitted in writing and shall include the changes proposed. This shall be subject to
the payment of a set fee.
Article 147
Any request for registration which:
(1) does not satisfy the provisions of Articles 133, 134 and 143 above;
(2) has not been corrected in accordance with Article 144 above;
shall be rejected.
A reference to said rejection shall be entered in the National Register of Marks
referred to in the first paragraph of Article 156 below.
Article 148