Chapter V: Legal proceedings

Civil actions and claims relating to patents for invention, including in the cases provided for in Article L. 611-7 or when they also concern a related question of unfair competition, shall be brought exclusively before the judicial courts, determined by regulation, with the exception of appeals lodged against administrative acts of the Minister responsible for industrial property, which shall come under the jurisdiction of the administrative courts. The foregoing provisions…

By way of derogation from the first paragraph of Article L. 615-17, the civil actions and claims referred to in the first paragraph of Article 32 of the Agreement relating to a Unified Patent Court shall be brought exclusively before the Unified Patent Court: 1° Where they relate to a European patent with unitary effect; 2° Where they relate to a European patent or a European patent application which has…

The court before which an action or plea falling within the provisions of this Title is brought may, either of its own motion or at the request of one of the parties, appoint any consultant of its choice to follow the proceedings from the time they are ready for hearing and to attend the hearing. The consultant may be authorised to put questions to the parties or their representatives.

If one of the parties so requests, any dispute relating to the application of Articles L. 611-7 and L. 611-7-1 shall be submitted to a joint conciliation commission, chaired by a magistrate of the judiciary whose vote shall be decisive in the event of a tie. Within six months of its referral, this commission, set up at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, will draw up a conciliation proposal;…

Decrees in the Council of State shall lay down the detailed rules for the application of this title.