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
Chapter 3: Loss of rights
Section 1: Status of co-owner
I: Exploitating the patent
II: Exclusive or non-exclusive license
A: Transfer/pre-emptive right
B: Surrender
IV: Infringement action
Section 3: Co-ownership regulations
Title 5: Patent protection
Part 4: Designs
375. Transfer/surrender of share of co-ownership
1 minute de lecture
Under Article L. 613-30 of the Intellectual Property Code, the principle that “no one may be forced to remain in joint ownership”, set out in Article 815 of the Civil Code, does not apply to joint ownership of patents. The co-owner of a patent therefore does not have the option of initiating the division under ordinary civil law conditions, but may, subject to compliance with certain formalities, …