Section 1: Provisions relating to jurisdiction

Where the court considers, including during the course of proceedings, that the claim falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the unified patent court pursuant to Articles L. 615-17 and L. 615-18, it shall declare of its own motion that it does not have jurisdiction and shall refer the parties back to the court for further proceedings. When, in the course of proceedings, unitary effect is conferred on the European patent…

The court hearing an action for infringement of a French patent shall stay the proceedings where the unified patent jurisdiction is simultaneously seised of an application based on a unitary patent or on a patent which is not the subject of a waiver of its exclusive jurisdiction pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 83 of the Agreement relating to a unified patent jurisdiction and the patent in dispute covers the…