Article 1378. Amendment of application documents for invention, useful model or industrial design

1. The applicant is entitled to submit an application for invention, a useful model or an industrial model for supplementing, clarifying and correcting by submitting additional material upon request by the Fede. of the executive authority on intellectual property before a decision is taken on the application for a patent, or a refusal to grant a patent, or the withdrawal of the application, if any. The application for an invention, a useful model or an industrial model does not change the substance of the request, the clarifications and corrections. an invention that does not change the application for an invention in substance and amend the description accordingly when applying for an examination of the application for an invention in substance and (or) after To receive a report on a preliminary information search or an information search carried out in accordance with the procedure established by article 1384, paragraph 6, of the fourth paragraph of article 1386 of the present Code. a, modified formula of the useful model that does not change the request for a useful model in substance, and modified the description accordingly after receipt of the preliminary search report 2. Additional materials modify the application for an invention or a useful model in a substantive way in one of the traces of article 1390, paragraph 1, of the present Code. In other cases, if they contain: another invention that does not meet the requirement of unity of invention with respect to an invention or a group of inventions accepted for consideration, or other useful fashion i.e. the elements to be included in the formula of an invention or a useful model and have not been disclosed in the application documents provided for in subparagraphs 1 to 4 of paragraph 2 of article 1375 or in subparagraphs 1 to 4 of article 13 to 75. article 1376 of the present Code and submitted on the date of submission of the application; reference to the technical result provided by the invention or useful model and not related to the technical res. 3. Additional materials shall modify the application for the industrial sample in substance if they contain images of the product on which: a laminated sample which does not meet the requirement of unity of the industrial sample with respect to the industrial sample or the group of industrial samples discovered in the images accepted for consideration; etc. There are significant signs of an industrial pattern missing from the images submitted at the date of the application or images of an item from which a significant confession has been removed. 4. Changes in information on the author, the applicant, including the transfer of the right to a patent to another l The claimant may, on his or her own initiative, be included in the application documents because of the change in the name of the author, the name of the applicant or the correction of obvious and technical errors. 5. Changes made by the applicant to the application documents shall be taken into account in the publication of the application if so. These amendments are submitted to the Federal Executive Authority on Intellectual Property within fifteen months of the date of the application.