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Article R411-38 of the French Intellectual Property Code

To justify before the Court of Appeal hearing an appeal lodged pursuant to the second paragraph of Article R. 411-19 the claims they had submitted to the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, the parties may put forward new pleas, produce new documents or propose new evidence.

On pain of inadmissibility raised ex officio, the parties may not submit new claims to the court except for the purpose of having questions arising from the intervention of a third party or from the occurrence or revelation of a fact judged.

Claims are not new if they are directed to the same ends as those submitted to the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, even if their legal basis is different.

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Article R411-38

Pour justifier devant la cour d’appel saisie d’un recours formé en application du second alinéa de l’article R. 411-19 des prétentions qu’elles avaient soumises au directeur général de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle, les parties peuvent invoquer des moyens nouveaux, produire de nouvelles pièces ou proposer de nouvelles preuves.

A peine d’irrecevabilité relevée d’office, les parties ne peuvent soumettre à la cour de nouvelles prétentions si ce n’est pour faire juger les questions nées de l’intervention d’un tiers ou de la survenance ou de la révélation d’un fait.

Les prétentions ne sont pas nouvelles dès lors qu’elles tendent aux mêmes fins que celles soumises au directeur général de l’Institut national de la propriété industrielle, même si leur fondement juridique est différent.

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