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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.