Industrial Property Law
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Administrative and professional organization
Part 2: Trademarks, service marks and other distinctive signs
Title 1: Scope of Application
Title 2: Conditions of patentability
Title 3: Obtaining the patent
Chapter 1: Exclusive right of exploitation
Chapter 2: Transfer of Rights
Section 1: Expropriation
Section 2: Seizure
Section 3: Forfeiture
Section 4: Opposition
Section 5: Surrender or limitation of ownership by proprietor
I: Grounds for invalidity
1°: Interest in bringing action/Standing
B: Implementation
III: Effects
IV: Special case of supplementary protection certificate
Chapter 4: Joint Ownership of Patents
Title 5: Patent protection
Part 4: Designs
364. Statute of limitations
1 minute de lecture
Since Ordinance No 2018-341 of 9 May 2018 , patent invalidity actions are not subject to any specific limitation period (Art. L. 615-8-1 IP Code). Patents may be declared invalid throughout their lifetime. Previously, invalidity actions were subject to the five-year statute of limitations set out in Article 2224 of the Civil Code, except when brought by way of exception . According to case law, th …
