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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: European patents

Article L614-15

The court hearing an action for infringement of a French patent which covers the same invention as a European patent applied for by the same inventor or granted to him or his successor in title with t…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 1: European patents

Article L614-14

…French patent and a European patent application or a European patent which has not been the subject of a waiver of the exclusive jurisdiction of the unified patent jurisdiction, pursuant to paragraph…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Section 1: Ability to negotiate.

Article L2231-1

…on the one hand, one or more trade union organisations representing employees within the scope of the agreement ;- on the other hand, one or more employers' trade union organisations, or any othe…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Filing of international applications

Article L614-19

…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.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Filing of international applications

Article L614-18

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 Industria…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-24-1

For the examination of extradition requests concerning the perpetrators of acts of terrorism, the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal, the First President of the Paris Court of Appeal and t…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 2: Extradition procedure under ordinary law

Article 696-9-1

For the search for a person who is the subject of a request for extradition or provisional arrest for the purposes of extradition, Articles 74-2 and 230-33 are applicable. The powers of the public pro…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Disputes relating to the award of private law public procurement contracts

Article 1441-3

I.-The review provided for in Article 11 of the aforementioned Order may be brought before the court no later than the thirty-first day following the publication in the Official Journal of the Europea…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Chapter VI: Disputes relating to the award of private law public procurement contracts

Article 1441-2

…e judge shall rule within twenty days on applications submitted to him pursuant to Articles 2 and 5 of the aforementioned Order. II. - The judge may not rule on these applications before the sixteenth…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Chapter I: Relationship between agreements and laws and regulations.

Article L2251-1

…e favourable to employees than the legal provisions in force. They may not derogate from provisions of public policy.

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