Any notification shall be deemed to be in order if it is made: – either to the last owner of the patent application declared to the National Institute of Industrial Property or, after the publication provided for in Article R. 612-39, to the last owner of the patent application or of the patent entered in the National Patent Register; – or to the agent. If the proprietor is not domiciled…
The notifications provided for in Article L. 613-22 and in articles R. 612-3-2, R. 612-8, R. 612-9, R. 612-11, R. 612-46 to R. 612-49, R. 612-56, R. 612-73, R. 613-44 to R. 613-45, R. 613-45-3, R. 613-52 and R. 613-58 shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Registered mail may be replaced by delivery of the letter to the addressee against a receipt, on the premises of…
Where a period is expressed in days, the day of the act, event, decision or notification that causes it to run shall not count. Where a period is expressed in months or years, the period shall expire on the day of the last month or year that bears the same number as the day of the act, event, decision or notification that causes the period to run. If there is…
The time limits set by the National Institute of Industrial Property in accordance with this Title shall be neither less than two months nor more than four months.
The terms of application of articles R. 612-1 to R. 612-25 and R. 613-53 to R. 613-59 are set by decision of the Director General of the Institut national de la propriété industrielle.
All correspondence or documents relating to proceedings before the National Institute of Industrial Property provided for in this Book shall be filed at the registered office of the Institute or shall be sent there by post or by any means of teletransmission under the conditions defined by decision of its Director General. The date of filing shall be the date of receipt at the registered office of the Institute. The…
Topographies of semiconductor products shall be filed with the National Institute of Industrial Property or sent to it by post or by any means of teletransmission under the conditions defined by decision of its Director General. Their filing date is that of receipt at the Institute’s headquarters. The Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property may require filing in electronic form where this is likely to facilitate the…
A deposit may relate to only one topography. It comprises: 1° A declaration of deposit containing sufficient information to identify the applicant, the topography and the date and place of its first exploitation or, failing that, the date on which it was first fixed or coded ; 2° A graphic representation of the topography, inserted in a fold, in which those parts have been masked which the applicant intends not…
The benefit of the filing date is acquired by the applicant on the date of submission of the documents provided for in the preceding article. This benefit shall accrue to him even if the documents are irregular in form, provided that their regularisation does not result in any change in the representation of the topography filed. In the event of non-conformity of the filing or material irregularity, the applicant shall…
A decision on the filing of a semiconductor product topography shall be taken within six months of the filing. This period is interrupted by the notification provided for in Article R. 622-3, until the filing is regularised.
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