Professionals registered on the list provided for in Article L. 422-1 or those established on the territory of a Member State of the European Union or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and authorised to represent persons in industrial property matters before the central industrial property office of their State are permitted to form, in order to practise their profession, professional non-trading companies, liberal practice companies or any other form of company. In the latter case, it is necessary that:
1° The chairman of the board of directors, the general managers, the members of the management board, the sole general manager and the manager or managers as well as the majority of the members of the board of directors or the supervisory board must have the status of the persons referred to in the first paragraph ;
2° The persons referred to in the first paragraph hold more than half of the share capital and voting rights;
3° The admission of any new member is subject to the prior approval, as the case may be, of the Board of Directors, the Supervisory Board or the manager(s).
The first two paragraphs of the article L. 225-22 and the articles L. 225-44 and L. 225-85 of the French Commercial Code do not apply respectively to members of the board of directors or members of the supervisory board of industrial property consultancy companies.
Where the profession of industrial property attorney is exercised by a company, in addition to the registration of natural person industrial property attorneys, the company must be registered in a special section of the list provided for in Article L. 422-1.