Patents [No. 40 of 2016 821 (6) The documents furnished in accordance with this section shall merely serve the purpose of facilitating the evaluation of novelty and inventive step claimed in the application filed with the Registrar or in the patent granted on the basis of that application. (7) A person making an application for a grant of a patent shall have the right to submit comments on the documents furnished in accordance with this section. 45. (1) The Registrar may reject, in a prescribed manner, an application for the grant of a patent, where the Registrar considers the— Refusal of application in certain cases (a) application to be frivolous, in that it claims, as an invention, something contrary to well established natural laws; (b) use of the invention, claimed in the complete specification, would encourage offensive, immoral or antisocial behaviour; (c) application claims, as an invention, a substance capable of being used as food or medicine which is a mixture of known ingredients possessing only the aggregate of the known properties of the ingredients; or (d) application claims, as an invention, a process producing a substance by mere admixture. (2) Despite subsection (1), the Registrar may, where the Registrar considers that the grounds for refusal of an application under this section can be addressed by amendment, request the applicant to amend the application accordingly. (3) A person aggrieved by the decision of the Registrar, made in accordance with subsection (1) may, within three months of receiving the decision, appeal to the High Court. 46. (1) An applicant for a grant of a patent for an invention may amend the description, claims or drawings of an application, in the prescribed manner, on the applicant’s own volition, provided that the amendment shall not go beyond the disclosure in the initial application. (2) Where an applicant for the grant of a patent makes an amendment, as provided in subsection (1), but goes beyond the earlier disclosure, the Registrar shall notify the applicant to exclude, within a prescribed period, the additional matter before the Registrar proceeds with the application. Amendment of patent application