What is the application for African invention patent search?

before submitting a patent application to OAPI, the applicant should determine the invention that needs to be applied for and search the existing technology to determine the novelty of the invention. OAPI conducts substantive examination of patent applications, examining the novelty, industrial applicability and creativity of patents. In order to prevent the possibility that the patent application is rejected because it does not meet the requirements of novelty, it is suggested that the applicant search the existing technology before applying. Because OAPI adopts the standard of absolute novelty, it should search the existing technologies in the world.