A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the procedures for applying this subsection, in particular with regard to the application of the provisions of Article 137-2 of the Munich Convention.
Unitary effect may be conferred on a European patent under the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 1257/2012 of 17 December 2012. The European patent with unitary effect takes effect in France on the day of publication of the mention of the grant of the European patent in the European Patent Bulletin. From that date, the European patent is deemed not to…
The entry in the register of unitary protection conferred by a patent of acts transferring or amending the rights attached to a European patent with unitary effect renders these acts enforceable against third parties.
A French patent may cover an invention for which a European patent with unitary effect has been granted to the same inventor or his successor in title with the same filing or priority date.
A European patent with unitary effect and a French patent application or a French patent with the same filing date or the same priority date, covering the same invention and belonging to the same inventor or his successor in title, may not, in respect of the common parts, be the subject independently of each other of a transfer, pledge, hypothecation or grant of exploitation rights, on pain of invalidity. As…
This section relates to the application of the Patent Cooperation Treaty, done at Washington on 19 June 1970, hereinafter referred to as the “Washington Treaty”.
International applications for the protection of inventions made by natural or legal persons having their domicile or registered office in France must be filed with the National Institute of Industrial Property when the priority of an earlier filing in France is not claimed. The Institut national de la propriété industrielle then acts as a receiving office within the meaning of Articles 2-XV and 10 of the Washington Treaty.
The Minister responsible for defence is authorised to take cognisance at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, on a confidential basis, of international applications for the protection of inventions filed with that institute.
Inventions that are the subject of international applications filed with the National Institute of Industrial Property may not be disclosed and freely exploited until authorisation has been granted to do so. During this period, the applications may not be made public; no true copies of the application may be issued unless authorised. The authorisations provided for in the first and second paragraphs of this article are granted by the Minister…
Before the end of either of the periods mentioned in the last paragraph of article L. 614-20, the prohibitions provided for in the said article may be extended, at the request of the Minister of Defence, for a renewable period of one year. In this case, the request is not forwarded to the International Bureau set up by the Washington Treaty. Extended bans may be lifted at any time. In…
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