French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Plant breeding
Article L623-21
The rights attached to an ex-officio licence may not be assigned or transferred.
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The rights attached to an ex-officio licence may not be assigned or transferred.
The provisions of Articles L. 613-8 and L. 613-29 to L. 613-32 shall apply to applications for plant variety certificates and breeder's certificates. The same applies to articles L. 613-9, L. 613-21 a…
The State may obtain ex officio, at any time, for the needs of national defence, a licence to exploit a plant variety which is the subject of an application for a certificate or a breeder's certificat…
…ot exploit the invention without infringing a prior plant variety right, he may apply for a licence to exploit the variety protected by the variety right, provided that the invention constitutes, in r…
The licence application provided for in Article L. 623-22-1 shall be made to the judicial court. The licence is non-exclusive. In particular, the court shall determine its duration, scope and the amou…
The rights attached to a compulsory licence may not be assigned or transferred except with the undertaking or part of the undertaking to which they are attached.This assignment or transfer is, on pain…
A variety essential to human or animal life may be made subject to the ex officio licence system by decree in the Conseil d'Etat or, where it is of interest to public health, by joint order of the Min…
…ired conditions, the Minister for Agriculture may, after obtaining the opinion of the body referred to in Article L. 412-1, revoke it.
The rights of any holder of a plant variety certificate shall be forfeited: 1° Who is unable to present to the administration at any time the elements of reproduction or vegetative propagation making…
From the day of publication of the decree which makes plant breeders' certificates subject to the ex officio licence system, any person presenting technical and professional guarantees may apply to th…
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