Subsection 1: Provisions common to administrative invalidity and revocation proceedings

Applications for invalidity or revocation of trade marks submitted to the Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall be made in the form and under the conditions defined by decree of the Conseil d’Etat. The Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall decide on the application for invalidity or revocation after an adversarial procedure including an investigation phase under conditions defined by decree of the Conseil…

At the request of the winning party, the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property shall charge to the losing party all or part of the costs incurred by the other party within the limit of a scale set by order of the Minister responsible for industrial property.