17. Examination of Application as to Form:
(1) The Patent Office shall examine the application as to its conformity
with Sections 12, 14, 15 and 16.
(2) Where the provisions of Sections 12 or 16 have not been complied
with, a patent shall not be granted; where the provisions of Section 15
have not been complied with, the Patent Office shall not mention in the
patent the priority claimed.
(3) Where the application does not fulfill the requirements of Section 14,
the applicant shall be invited by the Patent Office to restrict the
application so that it relates to only one invention. At the same time, the
Patent Office shall notify the applicant that, within a period of three
months, he may file, for the rest of the application, one or more divisional
applications, which shall benefit from the date of the filing of the original
application, and, if relevant, from the priority date claimed under Section
15. Where the applicant does not comply with this invitation to restrict the
original application to one invention, no patent shall be granted.
18. Grant of Patent without Examination as to the Substance of the
Application:
(1) where the examination referred to in Section 17 shows that the
application satisfies the requirements of Sections 12, 14, and 16, the
patent, as applied for, shall be granted without further examination,
particularly without examination of the question whether the subject of
the application is patentable within the terms of Sections 3 to 7, and
whether, for the same invention, an application benefiting from an earlier
priority has been made in the Democratic Republic of the Sudan or
whether a patent has been granted as a result of such application.
(2) where the examination referred to in Section 17 shows that the
provisions of Section 15 have been complied with, the Patent Office shall
mention in the patent the priority claimed.
(3) Patents are granted at the risk of the patentee and without guarantee
as to their validity.
19. Issuance and Registration of Patents:
(1) A patent shall be granted by the issuance of letters patent to the
patentee. The patent must contain the number thereof in order of grant;
the name and address of the patentee and, if his address is outside the
Democratic Republic of the Sudan, an address for service in the
Democratic Republic of the Sudan; the dates of the
application and grant; indication, if priority is claimed, of this fact, and the
number, date and country of the application, basis of the priority claimed;