Section 4a: Supervision of the practice of the profession

Any natural or legal person practising the profession of industrial property attorney is subject to checks by the Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété industrielle concerning compliance with the conditions for inclusion on the list of industrial property attorneys provided for in Article L. 422-5 as well as compliance with the professional obligations set out in Section IV of this chapter.

Controls are carried out by one or more controllers chosen by the President of the Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété industrielle from among industrial property attorneys or former members of the profession. .

The inspector(s) shall immediately inform the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property and the President of the Compagnie nationale des conseils en propriété industrielle of any fact, observed during an inspection, which may constitute a breach of the conditions and obligations mentioned in Article R. 422-52-2.

Within thirty days of the end of the physical inspection operations, the inspector(s) will send a provisional report to the person who was the subject of the inspection. The latter will have a period of thirty days in which to make written observations on the content of the report. At the end of this period, the examiner(s) will draw up a final report, to which they will attach the written…