- 7- (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 [JIIIII oj 11IICI1IIOil Inventions Amend- 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. UiI'ISIOIi 01 ,\ppIiCCIIIOII (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 Riglit of Pnoruv 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 Informauon Couccrniug Corresponding hlrclgll Application 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) 111111 (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,