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A patent makes it possible to prohibit third parties from manufacturing, offering, putting on the market or using, as well as importing, exporting, transshipping or holding for the aforementioned purposes, the product which is the subject of the patented invention (article L. 613-3 a) of the Code de la propriété intellectuelle .

Where the patent relates to a process, the proprietor may prohibit the use of the process or the offer to use it, where the third party is aware that its use is prohibited (article L. 613-3 b) of Code de la propriété intellecutelle ), as well as the offering, placing on...