| 11 Jan. 2010 - WIPO Patent Law Treaty comes into force in France |
| The World Intellectual Property Organization Patent Law Treaty of September 14, 2000 was published by the French decree No 2010-6 of January 6, 2010, itself published in the Official journal of January 8. Twenty-seven articles of the treaty and twenty one rules of the execution regulation are finally applicable in France. These texts were ratified by the law n° 2009-892 of July 24, 2009. Their objective is to harmonize the administrative formalities for patents, to simplify and rationalize the procedures of obtaining and renewing patents, and to reduce their cost. The ratification by France allows to improve the conditions of protection of inventions on the national territory and, doing so, to support innovation. |