822 No. 40 of 2016] Correction of errors in documents Patents (3) Where an applicant fails to comply with a notification, as provided in subsection (2), the Registrar shall, in examining the amended application, ignore the additional matter and notify the applicant accordingly. (4) Where a request for an amendment of a description, claim or drawings is made by an applicant, after the Registrar has accepted an application for the grant of a patent, the Registrar shall notify an applicant, making the request, to advertise the request in the Industrial Property Journal, within a prescribed period. (5) Where the request, referred to in subsection (4), has been advertised, by the applicant for the grant of a patent, any interested person may oppose the request within the prescribed period and manner. (6) Where opposition is made, as provided in subsection (5), the Registrar shall decide the matter. (7) A person aggrieved by the decision of the Registrar, made in accordance with subsection (6), may, within three months of receiving the decision, appeal to the High Court. (8) The Registrar may, without an application for amendment, amend a specification and abstract contained in an application for a patent so as to acknowledge a registered trade mark, where no such acknowledgment has been made by the applicant. 47. (1) The Registrar may, on request by an applicant, authorise the correction of a clerical error in a document filed with the Agency. (2) Where a request for the correction of an error, referred to in subsection (1) concerns the description, claim or drawings, the correction shall be obvious and immediately evident that nothing else is intended than what is offered as a correction. (3) A request for the correction of a clerical error, as specified in subsection (1), shall be made by the applicant in a prescribed manner and on payment of a prescribed fee. (4) Where it is proposed by the Registrar that a correction be made, otherwise than upon a request referred to in subsection (3), the Registrar shall give notice of the proposed correction to the applicant for the grant of a patent. Division of application 48. (1) An applicant for the grant of a patent may divide the initial application into two or more divisions, except that each divisional application shall not go beyond the disclosure in the initial application.