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Article L613-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code

In the absence of the consent of the owner of the patent, the following are prohibited:

a) The manufacture, offering, placing on the market, use, import, export, transhipment, or possession for the aforementioned purposes of the product which is the subject of the patent;

b) The use of a process which is the subject of the patent or, where the third party knows or where circumstances make it obvious that the use of the process is prohibited without the consent of the owner of the patent, the offering of its use on French territory ;

c) Offering, placing on the market, using, importing, exporting, transhipping or holding for the aforementioned purposes the product obtained directly by the process that is the subject of the patent.

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Article L613-3

Sont interdites, à défaut de consentement du propriétaire du brevet :

a) La fabrication, l’offre, la mise sur le marché, l’utilisation, l’importation, l’exportation, le transbordement, ou la détention aux fins précitées du produit objet du brevet ;

b) L’utilisation d’un procédé objet du brevet ou, lorsque le tiers sait ou lorsque les circonstances rendent évident que l’utilisation du procédé est interdite sans le consentement du propriétaire du brevet, l’offre de son utilisation sur le territoire français ;

c) L’offre, la mise sur le marché, l’utilisation, l’importation, l’exportation, le transbordement ou la détention aux fins précitées du produit obtenu directement par le procédé objet du brevet.

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