Chapter II: Submission and processing of applications

The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall ensure publication, under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, by mention in the Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle, by making the full text available to the public or by dissemination through a database or the distribution of the computer medium: 1° Of the file of any application for a patent or utility certificate at the end of a period…

The provisions of Article L. 612-21 shall apply to European patent applications and European patents.

The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall ensure the publication, in the manner mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 612-21 : 1° Of the mention of the registration of the unitary effect and the effective date of the European patent with unitary effect in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012; 2° Of the mention of a derogation pursuant to paragraph…

The National Institute of Industrial Property shall issue, at the request of any interested person or at the request of any administrative authority, a documentary notice citing the elements of the state of the art that may be taken into consideration to assess, within the meaning of the articles L. 611-11 and L. 611-14, the patentability of the invention.