Subsection 2: European patents with unitary effect

Unitary effect may be conferred on a European patent under the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012. The European patent with unitary effect takes effect in France on the day of publication of the mention of the grant of the European patent in the European Patent Bulletin. From that date, the European patent is deemed not to…

The entry in the register of unitary protection conferred by a patent of acts transferring or amending the rights attached to a European patent with unitary effect renders these acts enforceable against third parties.

A French patent may cover an invention for which a European patent with unitary effect has been granted to the same inventor or his successor in title with the same filing or priority date.

A European patent with unitary effect and a French patent application or a French patent with the same filing date or the same priority date, covering the same invention and belonging to the same inventor or his successor in title, may not, in respect of the common parts, be the subject independently of each other of a transfer, pledge, hypothecation or grant of exploitation rights, on pain of invalidity. As…