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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-3

…ns of the first paragraph, from several filing dates, one of which is more than twelve months earlier. The grant of the patent benefiting from an earlier filing date pursuant to this Article shall ter…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-5

The invention must be set out in the patent application in a sufficiently clear and complete manner to enable a person skilled in the art to carry it out. Where an invention involving biological mater…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal dissemination of inventions

Article L612-21

The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall ensure publication, under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d'Etat, by mention in the Bulletin officiel de la propriété industrielle,…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-1

The patent application shall be made in the form and under the conditions laid down in this Chapter and specified by regulation.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Submission of applications

Article L612-4

The patent application may relate to only one invention or to a plurality of inventions linked together in such a way that they form a single general inventive concept. Any application which does not…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-15

The applicant may convert his patent application into a utility certificate application under conditions laid down by regulation.The applicant may convert his utility certificate application into a pa…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-20

…son;-small or medium-sized enterprise;-not-for-profit organisation in the teaching or research sector. The benefit of the reduction is acquired on simple declaration. Any false declaration is establis…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-16-1

An applicant who has not complied with the priority period instituted by Article 4 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property in respect of the National Institute of Industrial…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Legal dissemination of inventions

Article L612-23

The National Institute of Industrial Property shall issue, at the request of any interested person or at the request of any administrative authority, a documentary notice citing the elements of the st…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Processing applications

Article L612-8

The Minister responsible for defence is authorised to take cognisance of patent applications at the Institut national de la propriété industrielle on a confidential basis.

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