Chapter III: Patent rights

The National Patent Register is kept by the National Institute of Industrial Property. Included therein, for each patent application or patent: 1° The identification of the applicant, and the references of the patent application or patent, as well as subsequent acts affecting its existence or scope; 2° Acts modifying the ownership of the patent application or patent or the enjoyment of the rights attached thereto; in the event of a…

The indications mentioned in 1° of Article R. 613-53 shall be 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 Patent Register.

Deeds modifying the ownership of a patent application or patent 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 waiver of such right, seizure, validation and release of seizure, shall be recorded at the request of one of the parties to the deed, or, if he is not a party to the deed,…

By way of derogation from 2° of Article R. 613-55, 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 shall be entered at the request of the proprietor of the patent application or patent, who must be the proprietor entered in the National Patent Register. However, where such changes and rectifications relate to a deed previously recorded, the request may be made by any party to the deed. The request shall include: 1° A registration request form; 2°…

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

Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 613-58-1, the application is deemed to have been accepted.