All acts transmitting or modifying the rights attached to a patent application or patent must, in order to be enforceable against third parties, be entered in a register, known as the National Patent Register, kept by the National Institute of Industrial Property.
However, before it is entered, an act is enforceable against third parties who acquired rights after the date of that act, but who were aware of it when those rights were acquired.
A licensee who is a party to a licence agreement that is not entered in the National Patent Register is also entitled to intervene in infringement proceedings brought by the owner of the patent in order to obtain compensation for his own loss.