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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Maintenance or revocation of title

Article R613-46

The annual fee for maintaining patent applications or patents in force, provided for in Article L. 612-19, is due for each year of the term of the patents. The filing fee covers the first annual insta…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R623-48

The notifications provided for by this section and by Article L. 623-18 shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt.Sending by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Acquisition of Trade Mark Rights

Article R712-4

The claiming, on the occasion of a filing made in France, of a right of priority attached to a previous foreign filing entails the obligation to send to the Institut national de la propriété industrie…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single section

Article R718-4

The notifications provided for in this Title shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. Registered mail may be replaced by delivery of the letter to the addressee, against rec…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 8: Miscellaneous provisions

Article R623-49

Any notification shall be deemed to be in order if it is made to the last owner of the application for a plant variety certificate, or of the plant variety certificate as it appears in the Register of…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Administrative proceedings for a declaration of invalidity or revocation of a trade mark

Article R716-4

An official of the National Institute of Industrial Property who has investigated an application for registration of a trade mark or an opposition filed against an application for registration of a tr…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Single chapter

Article R811-4

For application of this code and the provisions it makes applicable to the overseas territories, the following words listed below are replaced respectively by the following words:-"tribunal de grande…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 2: Contracts for the purchase of precious metals

Article R224-4

The mention of the date provided for in 5° of article L. 224-98 includes the day, month and year as well as the time of signature of the contract. The contract shall include the following statement: "…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: RULES FOR THE FORMATION AND PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS

Article R221-4

…provided for in the fourteenth paragraph of Article L. 221-5 concerns the voluntary sales auctioneer.

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: RULES FOR THE FORMATION AND PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN CONTRACTS

Article R222-4

Where the document by which the consumer has communicated his wish to withdraw to the supplier has been sent on paper or on another durable medium before the expiry of the period referred to in Articl…

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