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Article R614-32 of the French Intellectual Property Code

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.

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Article R614-37 of the French Intellectual Property Code

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…

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Article R615-1 of the French Intellectual Property Code

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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Article R615-2 of the French Intellectual Property Code

The court hearing an action for infringement of a French patent shall stay the proceedings where the unified patent jurisdiction is simultaneously seised of an application based on a unitary patent or on a patent which is not the subject of a waiver of its exclusive jurisdiction pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 83 of the Agreement relating to a unified patent jurisdiction and the patent in dispute covers the…

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Article R615-3 of the French Intellectual Property Code

The period provided for in the last paragraph of article L. 615-3 and given to the claimant to appeal on the merits through civil or criminal proceedings, or to lodge a complaint with the public prosecutor, is twenty working days or thirty-one calendar days, whichever is longer, from the date of the order. .

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Article R615-4 of the French Intellectual Property Code

The seizure, whether descriptive or real, provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 615-5 shall be ordered by the president of one of the judicial courts referred to in Article D. 631-2, within whose jurisdiction the operations are to be carried out. The order shall be made on application and on presentation of either the patent, supplementary protection certificate, utility certificate or certificate of addition or, in the…

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