Legislative Implementation of Flexibilities - Oman

Title:	Articles 5 (3) and (4) and 8 of the Law on Industrial Property Rights (Royal Decree No. 67/2008)
Field of IP:	Patents
Type of flexibility:	Disclosure related flexibilities
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Provisions of Law

Article (5)

Anyone submitting an application claiming patent right should abide by the following:

3 - The description shall disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete by providing the information that enables a person having ordinary skill in the art to execute, and use the invention without unnecessary experimentations.

4 - To submit a written undertaking declaring that the micro-organisms to which the application relates have been deposited with an international depositary authority, in accordance with the Budapest Treaty and its Regulations, provided that the applicant provides a copy of the receipt of the deposit issued by the international depositary authority.

Article (8)

If the Applicant filed, by himself or by his predecessor, a patent application out side the Sultanate, for the same or essentially the same invention as that claimed in the application filed in Oman, the Registrar may request the applicant to furnish him with the following documents:

1 - Date and number of any application filed abroad;

2 - A copy of any communication concerning the date of any search or examination carried out in respect of the foreign application;

3 - A copy of the patent granted on the basis of the foreign application;

4 - A copy of any final decision rejecting the foreign application or refusing the grant requested in the foreign application; and

5 - A copy of any final decision invalidating the patent granted on the basis of the foreign application.