Intellectual property glossary
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ARCOM (French audiovisual and digital communication regulator)
Abuse of a dominant position and intellectual property
Abuse of process (procédure abusive)
Abuse of regulatory and patent procedures
Accelerated assessment and the PRIME scheme
Account of the infringer’s profits
Acquiescence (forclusion par tolérance)
Action for a declaration of non-infringement
Action for patent infringement
Additional remuneration of the employee inventor
Additional year of protection for a new indication
Administrative invalidity and revocation proceedings before INPI
Advanced therapy medicinal product (ATMP)
Advertising approval (visa de publicité)
Advertising of medicinal products
Agreement on a Unified Patent Court
Anti-suit injunction (injonction anti-poursuite)
Anticompetitive agreements and intellectual property licences
Appeal to the Court of Cassation (pourvoi en cassation)
Appearance dictated by technical function
Application for a saisie-contrefaçon
Application for customs action
Application programming interface ("API")
Application to set aside an ex parte order
Artificial Intelligence Act ("AI Act") and intellectual property
Artificial intelligence and patents
Artist’s resale right (droit de suite)
Assessment of damages in intellectual property
Audiovisual production contract
Authorisation under exceptional circumstances
Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) and intellectual property
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C
CNIS (National Commission on Employee Inventions)
Centralised marketing authorisation procedure
China National Intellectual Property Administration ("CNIPA")
Clinical trial (Regulation (EU) No 536/2014)
Commercialisation of public research and SATTs
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP)
Communication under Rule 71(3) EPC
Compassionate access (accès compassionnel)
Component part of a complex product
Composite or derivative work (œuvre composite)
Composite trade mark and dominant element
Computer-implemented invention
Conditional marketing authorisation
Conflicts between trade marks and domain names
Contribution of an intellectual property right to a company
Conversion of a patent application
Conversion of an EU trade mark
Copyright and artificial intelligence
Copyright of public sector employees
Costs and recoverable legal fees
Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU")
Court-appointed expert evidence (expertise judiciaire)
Courts with jurisdiction in intellectual property matters
Criminal offence of infringement (délit de contrefaçon)
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Damages for patent infringement
Data exclusivity and regulatory protection
Data protection following a change of classification
Declaration of standard essential patents
Descriptive saisie-contrefaçon
Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the Digital Single Market
Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights
Disclosure of exhibits (communication de pièces)
Disparagement of generics (dénigrement)
Distinctiveness acquired through use
E
Earlier rights enforceable against a trade mark
Economic Committee for Health Products (CEPS)
Economic rights (droits patrimoniaux)
Employee mobility and trade secrets
Enforcement of judgments (exécution des décisions de justice)
Entitlement action (action en revendication)
Entry into the national or regional phase (PCT)
European Medicines Agency (EMA)
European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights
European public assessment report (EPAR)
Evidence of the date of creation
Evocation of a geographical indication
Ex parte order (ordonnance sur requête)
Examination of the trade mark application
Examination procedure before the EPO
Exclusion of methods of surgical or therapeutic treatment and diagnostic methods
Exclusive jurisdiction of the Paris court
Exclusivity and non-compete clauses
Expedited proceedings on the merits (procédure accélérée au fond)
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FRAND rates and comparable licences
Fair price (attributable non-mission invention)
Falsified medicines and unique identifier
Fixed-dose combination of active substances
Free use of ideas (idée de libre parcours)
French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM)
French National Authority for Health (HAS) and Transparency Committee
French anti-gift and transparency rules
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INAO (French National Institute of Origin and Quality)
Import authorisation for medicinal products
Improvement in actual clinical benefit (ASMR)
In vitro diagnostic medical device
Inclusion on the list of reimbursable medicinal products
Indication of controlled origin
Infringement seizure in copyright matters
Injunctions and standard essential patents
Intellectual property due diligence
Intellectual property in mergers and acquisitions
Intellectual property insurance
Intellectual property attorney
Interchangeability and substitution of biosimilars
Interim payment on account of damages (provision)
International Patent Classification ("IPC")
International search and written opinion (PCT)
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Liability of content-sharing platforms
Liability of hosting providers
Limitation period for infringement actions
Liquidation of a penalty payment (liquidation de l’astreinte)
Lis pendens and related actions (litispendance et connexité)
Liste en sus (additional list funded on top of hospital tariffs)
Literary and artistic property
London Agreement on translations
Lost profits and loss of chance (gain manqué et perte de chance)
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Magistral and hospital preparations
Marketing authorisation ("MA")
Marketing authorisation dossier (CTD format)
Marketing authorisation holder and exploitant
Material transfer agreement (MTA)
Medicinal product (legal definition)
Multi-jurisdictional patent litigation
Multimedia and hologram trade marks
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PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty)
Package leaflet and labelling of medicinal products
Paediatric investigation plan (PIP)
Parallel distribution of medicinal products
Parallel import of medicinal products
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
Partial assignment of intellectual property rights
Patent and intangible asset tax regime ("IP box")
Patent application of interest to national defence
Paediatric Extension (of an SPC)
Performance right (droit de représentation)
Performer (artiste-interprète)
Petition for review (Article 112a EPC)
Pharmaceutical establishment (établissement pharmaceutique)
Pledge of trade marks and software
Pre-action evidentiary measure
Pre-trial phase and pre-trial judge (mise en état)
Preliminary reference to the Court of Justice
Press publishers’ related right
Presumption of ownership (présomption de titularité)
Procedural objection and incidental application (incident de procédure)
Product directly obtained by a patented process
Product liability for health products
Proportional remuneration of the author
Proprietary medicinal product (spécialité pharmaceutique)
Protected designation of origin ("PDO")
Protected geographical indication ("PGI")
Protection and management body (organisme de défense et de gestion, "ODG")
Protection of the names of local authorities
Protocol on the Interpretation of Article 69 EPC
Provisional and protective measures
Provisional enforcement of judgments
Provisional patent application
Public morality (bonnes mœurs)
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R
Reasonable protection measures
Reasonable royalty as damages (redevance indemnitaire)
Rebates (remises conventionnelles)
Recall and destruction of infringing goods
Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments
Recordal in the national register
Reference price (tarif forfaitaire de responsabilité)
Registration of transactions (enforceability against third parties)
Rejection of a patent application
Renewal of the marketing authorisation
Repackaging and relabelling of imported medicinal products
Request for limitation (of a patent)
Res judicata (autorité de la chose jugée)
Research and development agreement
Research tax credit (crédit d’impôt recherche)
Right of attribution (droit à la paternité)
Right of disclosure (droit de divulgation)
Right of integrity (droit au respect de l’œuvre)
Right of priority (design trademark)
Right of withdrawal and reconsideration (droit de retrait et de repentir)
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Safeguard clause (clause de sauvegarde)
Saisie-contrefaçon with physical seizure (saisie réelle)
Selective distribution and intellectual property
Settlement agreement (transaction)
Shape dictated by technical function
Shortages and supply obligations
Similarity of goods and services
Simplified design filing (dépôt simplifié)
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks
Software development agreement
Standard Essential Patent (SEP)
Statutory licence (licence légale)
Stay of proceedings (sursis à statuer)
Sui generis right of the database producer
Summary of product characteristics (SmPC)
Sunset clause (clause de caducité)
Supplementary Protection Certificate
T
Technological protection measures ("TPMs")
Technology transfer block exemption regulation
Temporary authorisation for use (ATU)
Test purchase report (constat d’achat)
Third-party application maintenance (TMA)
Third-party litigation funding
Timestamping and blockchain evidence
Trade mark coexistence agreement
Trade mark filed by an agent or representative
Trade mark revocation action (action en déchéance)
Trade marks and advertising keywords
Trademark assignment agreement
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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre
WIPO Treaties of 1996 (WCT and WPPT)
Warranties in intellectual property contracts
Warranty against eviction (garantie d’éviction)
Wholesaler-distributor and public service obligations
Work of joint authorship (œuvre de collaboration)
Work of the mind (œuvre de l’esprit)
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