The period referred to in the last paragraph of Article L. 613-23-2 shall be four months. The date of the end of the investigation phase referred to in the same paragraph is notified without delay to the parties by the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property. This date shall occur if no party has submitted observations on the expiry of the time limits mentioned in 2° or…
The Institut national de la propriété industrielle publishes a new patent specification when the decision ruling on the opposition, which is no longer subject to appeal, maintains the patent in an amended form.
The prosecution phase or the time limit laid down in the first paragraph of Article R. 613-44-8 shall be suspended: 1° At the written request of any person establishing that an action to claim ownership of the patent has been brought, or that, on the date on which the request for opposition is filed in accordance with Article R. 613-44-1, an application for invalidity of the same patent has been…
Where opposition proceedings are suspended pursuant to the provisions of 1° of Article R. 613-44-10, they shall be resumed at the request of one of the parties forwarding to the National Institute of Industrial Property the decision ruling on the ownership claim or invalidity that has become res judicata. Where opposition proceedings are suspended pursuant to the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article R. 613-44-10, they shall be resumed…
The opposition procedure is closed: 1° When all opponents have withdrawn their opposition; 2° If the patent has been declared invalid by a final and binding court decision; > 3° If the proprietor of the patent renounces the claims to which the opposition relates; 4° When the effects of the patent against which the opposition was filed have ceased, unless the opponent can show a legitimate interest in obtaining a…
The request for renunciation or limitation shall be made by a written declaration. Subject to its admissibility, it may be presented by the proprietor of the patent at any time, even when the effects of the patent have ceased. The request must, in order to be admissible: 1° Emanate from the proprietor of the patent entered, on the day of the request, in the National Patent Register, or from his…
Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 613-45-1, the application is deemed to be rejected.
When a limitation procedure is closed pursuant to the fifth paragraph of Article L. 613-24, the Institute shall refund the limitation request fee. The decision to close the limitation procedure is notified to the patent proprietor.
The annual fee for maintaining patent applications or patents in force, provided for in Article L. 612-19, is due for each year of the term of the patents. The filing fee covers the first annual instalment. Payment of the annual instalments falls due on the last day of the month in which the anniversary date of the filing of the application falls. It will not be accepted if it is…
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