Subject to the sanctions provided for in Articles R. 411-29, R. 411-30 and R. 411-32, the submissions shall be notified to the parties’ lawyers and sent to the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property within the same time limit as that for their delivery to the court registry. Subject to the same sanctions, they shall be served at the latest within one month of the expiry of the time limits provided for in those articles on parties who have not constituted a lawyer; however, if, in the meantime, they have constituted a lawyer before the service of the pleadings, their lawyer shall be served.
The service of pleadings on a party within the time limit provided for in articles R. 411-29, R. 411-30 and R. 411-32 and in the first paragraph shall constitute the starting point of the time limit available to that party for submitting its pleadings to the court registry.