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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...


Requirements for filing a French patent or certificate of utility application


Patenting an invention in France


The prosecution of a French patent application


Filing a French Patent or a French Certificate of Utility ?


Validation of a granted EP


No direct PCT-phase


Searching & Watching


Recording


Annuities


Acting for infringement of a French patent


Seizure-infringement as an element of proof


Unfair competition


Latest news

11-2009

Change in the competent jurisdictions for IP matters as from November 1, 2009

As from 01/11/2009, the number of courts compentent for intellectual property cases is reduced in France :

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08-2009

France has ratified the patent law treaty (PLT)

On 24/07/2009, France ratified (Law n° 2009-892 of 24/07/2009) the patent law treaty (PLT), adopted at Geneva on 01/06/2000.

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02-2009

International Transfer of Technology

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...

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03-2008

The London Agreement: simplification of national stages of the European patent

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.

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