The prosecution phase or the time limit laid down in the first paragraph of Article R. 613-44-8 shall be suspended: 1° At the written request of any person establishing that an action to claim ownership of the patent has been brought, or that, on the date on which the request for opposition is filed in accordance with Article R. 613-44-1, an application for invalidity of the same patent has been…
Where opposition proceedings are suspended pursuant to the provisions of 1° of Article R. 613-44-10, they shall be resumed at the request of one of the parties forwarding to the National Institute of Industrial Property the decision ruling on the ownership claim or invalidity that has become res judicata. Where opposition proceedings are suspended pursuant to the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article R. 613-44-10, they shall be resumed…
The opposition procedure is closed: 1° When all opponents have withdrawn their opposition; 2° If the patent has been declared invalid by a final and binding court decision; > 3° If the proprietor of the patent renounces the claims to which the opposition relates; 4° When the effects of the patent against which the opposition was filed have ceased, unless the opponent can show a legitimate interest in obtaining a…
The request for renunciation or limitation shall be made by a written declaration. Subject to its admissibility, it may be presented by the proprietor of the patent at any time, even when the effects of the patent have ceased. The request must, in order to be admissible: 1° Emanate from the proprietor of the patent entered, on the day of the request, in the National Patent Register, or from his…
Failing an express decision within the time limit mentioned in Article R. 613-45-1, the application is deemed to be rejected.
When a limitation procedure is closed pursuant to the fifth paragraph of Article L. 613-24, the Institute shall refund the limitation request fee. The decision to close the limitation procedure is notified to the patent proprietor.
The annual fee for maintaining patent applications or patents in force, provided for in Article L. 612-19, is due for each year of the term of the patents. The filing fee covers the first annual instalment. Payment of the annual instalments falls due on the last day of the month in which the anniversary date of the filing of the application falls. It will not be accepted if it is…
I.-The six-month period provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 612-19, during which payments made after the due date are validated subject to the payment of a late fee, is counted from the day following the due date of the annual fee. Any payment made after the due date shall be considered valid: when it relates to a patent application resulting from the division of a patent application,…
Where payment of an annual fee is not made by the normal due date, a warning shall be sent to the owner of the patent application or patent stating that he shall incur the forfeiture of his rights if such payment, together with that of the late fee, is not made before the expiry of the six-month period provided for in the first paragraph of article R. 613-47. The absence…
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