The provisions of this article shall apply to public civil servants as well as to persons whose services are hired in accordance with the code of civil, administrative and commercial procedures of Rwanda. Article 22: Naming of the inventor The inventor shall be named as such in the patent unless, in a special written declaration addressed to the empowered authority, he indicates that he wish not to be named. Any promise or undertaking to make such a declaration, made with regard to any person by the inventor, shall have no legal effect. SECTION 3: PATENT APPLICATION Article 23: Filing the application Patent application shall be filed with the empowered authority. The application shall contain: 1° a request for the grant of a patent; 2° a description of the invention; 3° one or more claims in the invention; 4° one or more drawings (where necessary); 5° an abstract. The filing of the application shall be subject to payment of the prescribed fee. The applicant may, until such time as it is observed that the application meets the requirements for the grant of the patent, withdraw the application at any time during its pendency. Where the application has been withdrawn a subsequent application can be filed in Rwanda in respect of the same invention. Such subsequent application shall be regarded as the first application in respect of that invention. No priority rights shall be claimed on the withdrawn application after the lodging of the subsequent application Article 24: Request for the grant of a patent The request for patent shall contain: 1° a application letter requesting for the grant of a patent; 2° the name, address and other prescribed information relating to the applicant and to the inventor; 3° the information relating to the representative, where appropriate; 4° the title of the invention.