Industrial property attorneys may practise their profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d’exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory statute or whose title is protected and to companies for the financial participation of liberal professions, the purpose of which is the joint practice of the profession of industrial property attorney and one or more other professions provided for in this title.
The members of the company include a natural person who fulfils the conditions required to practise the profession.
At least one member of the profession of industrial property attorney practising within the company, as a partner or employee, must be a member of the company’s board of directors or supervisory board.
The last paragraph of Article L. 422-7 is applicable.