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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-1

…matter of the patent is not patentable under the terms of Articles L. 611-10, L. 611-11 and L. 611-13 to L. 611-19; 2° The patent does not set out the invention clearly and completely enough for a per…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-22

1. Any owner of a patent application or patent who has not paid the annual fee provided for in Article L. 612-19 within the period prescribed by the said article. The forfeiture takes effect on the du…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-13

Mandatory licences and ex-officio licences are non-exclusive. The rights attached to these licences may only be transferred together with the goodwill, business or part of the business to which they a…

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

Article L613-2-1

The scope of a claim covering a gene sequence is limited to the part of that sequence directly related to the specific function concretely set out in the description. The rights created by the grant o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Joint ownership of patents

Article L613-32

The provisions of Articles L. 613-29 to L. 613-31 apply in the absence of stipulations to the contrary. Co-owners may derogate from this at any time by co-ownership regulations.

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

Article L613-7

Any person who, in good faith, at the date of filing or priority of a patent, was, in the territory where this Book is applicable, in possession of the invention which is the subject of the patent, sh…

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

Article L613-2-2

Subject to the provisions of articles L. 613-2-1 et L. 611-18, the protection conferred by a patent on a product containing or consisting of genetic information extends to any material in which the pr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-24

…plication. The provisions of this Article shall apply to limitations made pursuant to Articles L. 613-25 and L. 614-12.A decree in Council of State shall specify the conditions of application of this…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-23-4

…de la propriété industrielle grants the opposition on one of the grounds mentioned in Article L. 613-23-1 raised by the opponent, the patent may be: 1° revoked in whole or in part; 2° Maintained in a…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Transfer and loss of rights

Article L613-20

The State may, at any time, by decree, expropriate, in whole or in part, for the needs of national defence, inventions, which are the subject of patent applications or patents. Failing amicable agreem…

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