French Intellectual Property Code
In forceThe
Articles R. 512-1 to R. 514-5are applicable to filings taking effect on 15 September 1992 subject to the following provisions:
1° Filings made before 15 September 1992 shall remain subject, as regards the conditions of material presentation, to the previously applicable provisions;
2° Requests for maintenance, requests for publicity or extension, requests for restitution or communication presented before 15 September 1992 shall be executed in accordance with the provisions previously in force;
3° Deposits made for five years and kept secret shall be maintained there when the owner does not request the extension of their effects until twenty-five years. The request must be submitted, before the expiry of the five years, under the conditions set out in
Article R. 513-1;
4° Deposits made for twenty-five years and kept secret are maintained there, unless the owner waives secrecy under the conditions provided for in
Article R. 512-10or request the extension of their effects for a second period of twenty-five years under the conditions laid down in Article R. 513-1;
5° Only registrations made on the initiative of the Director General of the Institute and relating to acts carried out after 15 September 1992 shall be entered in the Register.
