10 No. 10 Patents and Industrial Designs Act 2012 (2) The applicant shall, at the request of the Registrar, furnish the Registrar with the following documents relating to one or more of the foreign applications referred to in subsection (1) (a) � a copy of any communication received by the applicant concerning the result of any search or examination carried out in respect of the foreign application; (b) � a copy of the patent granted on the basis of the foreign application; and (c) � a copy of any final decision rejecting the foreign application or refusing the grant in the foreign application. (3) The applicant shall, at the request of the Registrar, furnish the Registrar with a copy of any final decision invalidating the patent granted on the basis of the foreign application referred to in subsection (2). (4) The applicant shall have the right to submit comments on the documents furnished under this section. (5) For the purposes of this section "foreign application" means any application filed by the applicant abroad which relates to the same or essentially the same invention as that claimed in the application filed with the Registrar. Filing date. 18. (1) The Registrar shall accord as the filing date, the date of receipt of the application, if at the time of receipt, the application contains (a) � an express or implicit indication that the granting of a patent is sought; No. 10 Patents and Industrial Designs Act 2012 (b) � indications allowing the identity of the applicant to be established; (c) � a part which, on the face of it, appears to be a description of an invention. (2) Where the Registrar finds that the application did not, at the time of receipt, fulfill the requirements referred to in subsection (1), the Registrar shall invite the applicant to file the required correction and shall accord as the filing date the date of receipt of the required correction, but if no correction is made, the application shall be regarded as void. (3) Where the application refers to drawings which are not included in the application, the Registrar shall invite the applicant to furnish the missing drawings; and if the applicant complies with the said invitation, the Registrar shall accord as the filing date, the date of receipt of the missing drawings, otherwise the Registrar shall accord as the filing date the date of receipt of the application and shall treat any references to the drawings as non-existent. (4) Where the request is accompanied by a statement on the rights to the patent, the Registrar shall send a copy of the statement to the inventor and the inventor shall have the right to inspect the application and to receive at his own expense, a copy thereof. (5) After according a filing date, the Registrar shall examine whether there are any of the following defects with respect to the application:(a) � the application does not comply with the requirements of subsections (1) and (3) of section 10; (b) � the applicant has not complied with a request of the Registrar under section 16; or 11