French Intellectual Property Code
In forceI. - The National Institute of Industrial Property shall collect fees, the amount and terms of application of which shall be laid down by joint order of the Minister responsible for industrial property and the Minister responsible for the budget, on the occasion of the following procedures and formalities:
1° For patents for invention, utility certificates and supplementary protection certificates:
-filing;
-search report or supplementary search report;
-supplementary claim from the eleventh;
-petition for rectification of errors;
-petition for continuation of proceedings;
-petition for limitation;
-issuance and printing of the specification;
-opposition;
-maintenance;
-petition for restoration;
2° For European patents:
-publication of translation or revised translation of the claims of a patent application or of the claims of a European patent;
-establishment and transmission of copies of the European patent application to the addressee States;
3° For international applications (Patent Cooperation Treaty, PCT):
-transmission of an international application;
-supplement for late payment;
-preparation of additional copies;
4° For trademarks or service marks:
-filing;
-class of goods or services;
-regularisation or rectification of material error;
-opposition;
-renewal;
-application for entry in the International Register of Trade Marks;
-record of lapse;
-application for invalidity or revocation;
-additional right invoked in an opposition or application for invalidity, beyond the first right invoked;
-division of the application or registration;
5° For designs:
-filing;
-extension;
-regularisation, rectification, statement of lapse;
6° Fees common to patents, utility certificates, supplementary protection certificates, software, trade marks, designs.-Prizes and awards:
-supplement for late application, late payment or late completion of a formality;
-waiver;
-application for entry in the national register;
-registration of a prize, award or transcription of a declaration of assignment or transmission;
7° For rights related to industrial property:
-topographies of semiconductor products: filing and storage; recording of an act modifying or transferring rights.
The Institute collects fees, the amount and terms of application of which are set by joint order of the Minister responsible for industrial property, the Minister responsible for craft industries and the Minister responsible for the budget, on the occasion of the following procedures and formalities:
-application for approval of the specifications of the geographical indications defined in article L. 721-2;
-application to amend the approved specification.
In the event of inadmissibility, the following fees are refunded:
-for patents, utility certificates and supplementary protection certificates: filing;
-for trademarks or service marks: filing, product or service class, renewal;
-for designs and models: filing, extension;
-for geographical indications defined in Article L. 721-2: application for approval, application to amend the approved specification.
Also reimbursed are:
the search report fee for a patent when the patent grant procedure is terminated or in the event of an extension of the prohibitions on disclosure and free exploitation, if the procedure for drawing up the search report has not been initiated;
-the fee for a request for limitation of a patent for invention where the limitation procedure is terminated under the conditions laid down in Article R. 613-45-3.
II. - The Institut national de la propriété industrielle shall collect fees, the amount and terms of application of which shall be set by deliberation of its board of directors, on the occasion of the following procedures and formalities:
1° The communication of documents and acts which it keeps;
2° The registration and, where applicable, the keeping and return of envelopes intended to facilitate proof of the contents and the certain dating of applications annexed to industrial property.
