When the normal functioning of communications is interrupted, a decree that will take effect from the day of the interruption may suspend the time limits with regard to the National Institute of Industrial Property for the duration of the interruption.
Any application for a patent or any patent shall give rise to the payment of annual fees which must be paid no later than the date fixed by decree in the Council of State. Where payment of an annual fee has not been made by the date specified in the preceding paragraph, the said fee may be validly paid within a six-month period of grace subject to payment of a…
The amount of the fees charged in connection with the filing, examination and granting of the patent as well as its maintenance in force may be reduced when the applicant belongs to one of the following categories: -natural person; -small or medium-sized enterprise; -not-for-profit organisation in the teaching or research sector. The benefit of the reduction is acquired on simple declaration. Any false declaration is established, at any time and…
The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall ensure publication, under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, by mention in the Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle, by making the full text available to the public or by dissemination through a database or the distribution of the computer medium: 1° Of the file of any application for a patent or utility certificate at the end of a period…
The provisions of Article L. 612-21 shall apply to European patent applications and European patents.
The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall ensure the publication, in the manner mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 612-21 : 1° Of the mention of the registration of the unitary effect and the effective date of the European patent with unitary effect in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012; 2° Of the mention of a derogation pursuant to paragraph…
The National Institute of Industrial Property shall issue, at the request of any interested person or at the request of any administrative authority, a documentary notice citing the elements of the state of the art that may be taken into consideration to assess, within the meaning of the articles L. 611-11 and L. 611-14, the patentability of the invention.
The exclusive right of exploitation mentioned in Article L. 611-1 takes effect as from the filing of the application.
The scope of protection conferred by the patent is determined by the claims. However, the description and drawings serve to interpret the claims. If the subject matter of the patent relates to a process, the protection conferred by the patent extends to the products obtained directly by that process.
The scope of a claim covering a gene sequence is limited to the part of that sequence directly related to the specific function concretely set out in the description. The rights created by the grant of a patent including a gene sequence may not be invoked against a subsequent claim covering the same sequence if that claim itself satisfies the conditions of Article L. 611-18 and that it sets out…
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