Cabinet Chaillot represents applicants before the French Patent Office (INPI) for filing French patents and following their prosecution. We give you here the main steps of the prosecution, the elements required for filing a French patent, the difference between a French patent and a certificate of utility (or utility model), the validation requirements of a EP patent since the London Agreement, the specific French seizure (inspection of property) as an element of proof in case of infringement action...
Article 19 of the Decree 2008-1472 of 30/12/2008 abrogates Articles R624.1 to R624-7 of the French Intellectual Property Code, which gave the legal frame on the...
According to the London Agreement, the validation stage of the European patents the date of grant of which will be published from the 1st May, 2008 will be simplified.