26 Government Gazette 23 March 2012 Act No. 1, 2012 (c) No. 4907 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012 a copy of any final decision invalidating or revoking the patent or other title of protection granted on a foreign application referred to in subsection (1). (5) Subsection (2)(a) does not apply in respect of information relating to the examination of the same international application in another elected office where the Office is an elected office in the meaning of section 81 and has received or will receive an international preliminary report on patentability. Post-dating of application 31. The applicant may, at any time before a patent is granted, in the prescribed manner request the Registrar to direct that the application be post-dated to such date as may be specified in the request, except that – (a) no application may be post-dated under this section to a date later than six months from the date on which it was actually lodged; (b) an application claiming priority in terms of section 29 may not be postdated under this section to a date later than the last date on which, under the provisions of this Act, the application could have been lodged; and (c) no application may be post-dated if priority has been claimed on the basis of that application by the applicant or his or her successors or predecessors in title in a subsequent application for a patent which leaves any rights outstanding. Withdrawal of application 32. application. The applicant may, at any time before a patent is granted, withdraw the Conversion of patent application 33. (1) The applicant may at any time before a patent is granted or refused, in the prescribed manner, apply to the Registrar for the patent application to be converted to an application for a utility model as contemplated in section 90(1). (2) Such application for a utility model must be accorded as its filing date, the filing date of the patent application as provided for in section 34. Filing date 34. (1) The Registrar must accord as the filing date of the application, the date of receipt of the application, provided that at the time of its receipt, the application contains – (a) an express or implicit indication that the granting of a patent is sought; (b) information allowing the identity of the applicant to be established; and