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Lexicon<\/a> > INPI<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

IP Lexicon<\/p>\n

The National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI), located in Courbevoie, is a financially autonomous public institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Industrial Property<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the French national office responsible for industrial property.<\/p>\n

What are the missions? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Article L.411-1 of the Intellectual Property Code<\/a> states that the INPI’s mission is to :<\/p>\n

“1\u00b0 To centralize and disseminate all information necessary for the protection of innovations and for the registration of companies, as well as to initiate all awareness-raising and training activities in these fields;<\/em><\/p>\n

2. to apply the laws and regulations concerning industrial property and the Register of Commerce and Companies; to this end, the Institute shall provide, in particular, for the receipt of applications for industrial property titles or titles annexed to industrial property, for their examination and issue or registration and for the supervision of their maintenance; it shall hear applications for the invalidation and lapse of trademarks mentioned in Article L. 716-5, paragraphs 1 and 2, as well as oppositions filed against patents; it shall centralize the Register of Commerce and Companies, in particular on the basis of computerized data transmitted by the clerks of the commercial courts, and shall ensure that the Register is kept up to date. 716-5, as well as oppositions filed against patents; it centralizes the Trade and Companies Register, in particular on the basis of computerized data transmitted by the clerks of the Commercial Court, and the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements; it ensures the dissemination of technical, commercial and financial information contained in industrial property titles; it ensures the dissemination and free availability to the public, for purposes of re-use, of the technical, commercial and financial information contained in the National Trade and Companies Register and in the centralized legal publicity instruments, in accordance with the procedures laid down by decree; it rules on applications for approval or amendment of the specifications of the geographical indications defined in Article L. 721-2 ;<\/em><\/p>\n

3\u00b0 To take any initiative with a view to the permanent adaptation of national and international law to the needs of innovators and enterprises; in this respect, it proposes to the Minister responsible for industrial property any reform that it considers useful in these matters; it participates in the drafting of international agreements as well as in the representation of France in the competent international organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n

The INPI is thus mainly responsible for :<\/p>\n