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Article L613-9 of the French Intellectual Property Code

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.

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Article L613-9

Tous les actes transmettant ou modifiant les droits attachés à une demande de brevet ou à un brevet doivent, pour être opposables aux tiers, être inscrits sur un registre, dit Registre national des brevets, tenu par l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle.

Toutefois, avant son inscription, un acte est opposable aux tiers qui ont acquis des droits après la date de cet acte, mais qui avaient connaissance de celui-ci lors de l’acquisition de ces droits.

Le licencié, partie à un contrat de licence non inscrit sur le Registre national des brevets, est également recevable à intervenir dans l’instance en contrefaçon engagée par le propriétaire du brevet afin d’obtenir la réparation du préjudice qui lui est propre.

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