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(7) The applicant may, up to the tim? when the application is in order
for grant, withdraw the application at any time during its pendency
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12( I) The application shall relate to one invention only or to a group of
invennons so linked as to form a smgle general inventive concept.
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(2) The applicant may, up to the time when the application is in order for
grant, amend the application, provided that the amendment shall not go
bevond the disclosure in the initial application,
(3 ira) The applicant may, up to the time when the application is in order
rOJ grant, divide the application into two or more applications ('divisional
applications"), provided that each divisional application shall not go beyond
the disclosure in the initial application
(b) Each divisional application shall be entitled to the filing date and,
where applicable, the priority date of the initial application
(4) The fact that a patent has been granted on an application that did not
comply with the requirement of unity of invention under subsection (1) shall
not be a ground for the invalidation of the patent
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13( 1) The application may contain a declaration claiming the priority, as
provided for in the Paris Convention, of one or more earlier national, regional
or international applications filed by the applicant or his predecessor in title
in or for any State party to the said Convention (or any Member of the World
Trade Organization)
(2) Where the application contains a declaration under subsection (I), the
Director General may request that the applicant furnish, within the prescribed
lime limit, a copy of the earlier application cenified as correct by the Office
With which it was filed
(3) The effect of the said declaration shall be as provided in the Paris
Convention
(4) If the Director-General finds that the requirements under this Section
and the Regulations penaining thereto have not been fulfilled, the said
declaration shall be considered not to have neen made
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Corresponding
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14,( I ) The applicant shall, at the request of the Director General furnish him
with the date and number of any application for a patent filed by him abroad
("foreign application") relating to the same or essentially the same invention
as that claimed in the application filed with the Office of the Director General,
(2)( a) The applicant shall, at the request of the Director General, furnish
With the following documents relating to one of the foreign applications
referred to in subsection (1)
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(i)
a copy of any communication received by the applicant
concerning the results of any search or examination carried
out in respect ofthe foreign application;
(ii)
a copy of the patent granted on the basis of the foreign
application,