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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Provisions common to transferable securities

Article L228-3

…agent, which may be made at any time. The communication deadlines and the list of information are set by decree in the Conseil d'Etat. Where the deadlines are not met or where the information provide…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-3

Where two patent applications are filed successively by the same inventor or his successor in title within a period of not more than twelve months, the applicant may request that the second applicatio…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-3

…owner of the patent, the following are prohibited:a) The manufacture, offering, placing on the market, use, import, export, transhipment, or possession for the aforementioned purposes of the product…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: European patents

Article L614-3

The Minister responsible for defence is authorised to take cognisance at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle, on a confidential basis, of European patent applications filed at that inst…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Withholding

Article L614-35

…certificate may, at his request or at the request of the customs administration, inspect the goods detained. When inspecting the detained goods, the customs administration may take samples.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Filing

Article L622-3

The right to the deposit belongs to the creator or his successor in title. If a deposit has been made in violation of the rights of the creator or his successor in title, the injured party may claim t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 4: Withholding

Article L623-36

…Union regulations, the customs authorities may, at the written request of the holder of a plant variety certificate, accompanied by proof of entitlement, detain goods which the holder claims to be cou…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Withholding

Article L614-33

…ovided for by European Union regulations, the customs administration may, as part of its controls, detain goods likely to infringe a patent or a supplementary exploitation certificate. The owner of th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1 : Issue of plant variety certificates

Article L623-3

Any plant variety meeting the conditions of article L. 623-2 is defined by a name to which a description and a sample copy kept in a collection correspond.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter IVa: Withholding

Article L614-39

A decree in the Council of State sets out:

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