Book IV: Administrative and professional organisation

In all matters and for all services mentioned in article L. 422-1, the industrial property attorney shall observe professional secrecy. This secrecy extends to consultations addressed or intended for his client, professional correspondence exchanged with his client, a colleague or a lawyer, with the exception for the latter of those bearing the mention “official”, interview notes and, more generally, all file documents.

The profession of industrial property attorney is incompatible: 1° With any activity of a commercial nature, whether exercised directly or through an intermediary; 2° With the capacity of partner in a general partnership, general partner in a limited partnership or partnership limited by shares, manager of a limited liability company, chairman of the board of directors, member of the management board, managing director or deputy managing director of a public…

The profession of industrial property attorney is incompatible with the practice of any other profession, subject to specific legislative or regulatory provisions. It is, however, compatible with teaching duties, as well as those of arbitrator, mediator, conciliator or court expert.