The international filing fee and the search fee provided for in Rules 15 and 16 of the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty must be paid before the expiry of a period of one month from the date of receipt of the international application. The international filing fee and the search fee shall be paid in euros.
Where payment of the transmittal fee, the search fee and the international filing fee has not been made within the time limits set in Articles R. 614-26 and R. 614-27, the applicant is invited to pay the amount of the said fees within one month, plus the fee for late payment provided for in Rule 16 bis 1 (a and b) of the Implementing Regulations of the Patent Cooperation Treaty….
If the international application and the other documents referred to in article R. 614-23 are filed in a number of copies lower than that set by the said article, a fee is charged for the preparation of the required number of copies. The fee must be paid before the expiry of a period of one month from the date of notification to this effect. .
The transmittal fee referred to in Article R. 614-26 shall be returned to the applicant where the international application has not been transmitted to the International Bureau within the time limit prescribed by Rule 22(3) of the Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
Payment of the taxes and royalties provided for in articles R. 614-26 to R. 614-32 is in full discharge of liability if it is paid at the rate in force on the day of payment.
The provisions of articles R. 411-19 to R. 411-26 and R. 618-3 apply to the litigation referred to in Article L. 411-4.
The terms of application of articles R. 614-21 to R. 614-24 are set, where necessary, by order of the Minister responsible for industrial property.
Subject to the provisions of Article R. 614-37, Chapter Va of Title III of Book III is applicable to the detention by the customs administration of goods likely to infringe patents for invention, as provided for in Chapter IVa of Title I of Book VI.
When the customs administration decides to take a sample, two copies are taken by customs officers. One is given to the owner of the goods or its holder or the representative of one of them and the other is kept by the customs administration. The owner of the patent or supplementary protection certificate or the person entitled to exploit the patented invention or the subject of the supplementary protection certificate…
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…
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