Title I: Acquisition of rights

The application for relief from the disqualification provided for in Article L. 512-3 must be made within two months of the cessation of the impediment, and the act not performed must be performed within the same period. It is no longer admissible after a prefixed period of six months counted from the expiry of the unobserved period. The application shall be submitted to the Director General of the Institute by…

Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 512-12-1, the application is deemed to be accepted.

The National Designs Register is kept by the National Institute of Industrial Property. It contains, for each filing: 1° The identification of the holder and the references of the filing as well as subsequent acts affecting its existence or scope; 2° Acts modifying the ownership of a design or the enjoyment of the rights attached thereto; in the event of a claim of ownership, the corresponding summons; 3° Changes of…

The indications provided for in 1° of Article R. 512-13 are recorded at the initiative of the National Institute of Industrial Property or, in the case of a court decision, at the request of the registrar or at the request of one of the parties. Only final court decisions may be entered in the National Designs Register.

Acts modifying the ownership of a design deposit or the enjoyment of the rights attached thereto, such as assignment, grant of a right of exploitation, constitution or assignment of a right of pledge or renunciation of such right, seizure, validation and release of seizure, shall be registered at the request of one of the parties to the act, or, if he is not a party to the act, of the…

By way of derogation from 2° of Article R. 512-15, may be produced with the application: 1° In the event of a transfer by death: a copy of any deed establishing the transfer, at the request of the heirs or legatees; 2° In the event of a transfer following a merger, demerger or takeover: the unique identification number or, for operators located outside France, a copy of a document equivalent…

Changes of name, legal form, address and corrections of material errors are recorded at the request of the owner of the filing, who must be the owner entered in the National Designs Register. However, where such changes and rectifications relate to an act previously recorded, the request may be made by any party to the act. The request shall include: 1° A registration request form; 2° If applicable, the power…

In the event of non-compliance of an application for registration, reasoned notification shall be given to the applicant. The applicant shall be given a period in which to regularise the application or submit observations. In the absence of regularisation or observations enabling the objection to be removed, the application shall be rejected by decision of the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property. The notification may be accompanied…

A decision is taken on the application for registration referred to in Articles R. 512-15 and R. 512-17 within six months of its submission. This period is interrupted, where applicable, by the notification provided for in article R. 512-18, until the application is regularised or the objection is lifted.