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INPI |
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National Institute for
Industrial Property |
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26 bis, rue de Saint
Pétersbourg |
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F-75800 Paris cedex 08 |
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Tel: (+33) 1 53 04
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Fax: (+33) 1 53 04
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INPI is a
publicly-owned establishment, financially self-sufficient and placed under
the supervision of the Ministry for the economy, finances and industry and
the Ministry delegated to industry. |
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The main
duties of the INPI are to grant patents for the protection of inventions, to
register trademarks and to formulate the industrial property protection laws.
The INPI?s role is also to promote an understanding
of intellectual property protection and to support innovation and French
companies? competitiveness. Within this framework, INPI keeps the national
Trade and Companies Register (information on businesses) and provides various
tools for technological and commercial surveys: libraries, CD-ROMs, databases
and a web site.
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Main activities |
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- Receive
and examine applications to grant patents on inventions and register
trademarks,
designs and models |
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- Make
and adapt the industrial property protection laws |
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- Play an
active role in sensitizing to the stakes of intellectual property protection
by disseminating patent and trademark information. |
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- Provide
training to students in universities, business and engineering schools as
well as to professionals in companies, research institutions and partner
institutions for innovation. |
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- Publish
and disseminate patent information, maintain and make available databases of
French and foreign issued patents and records |
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Reinforce the influence of |
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- Keep at
the national level all the information collected by the commercial courts on
the companies (registration numbers, changes, cancellations of registrations,
legal instruments and annual accounts) |
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INPI Innovation Trophies |
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Organized
every 2 years, the INPI Innovation Trophies have been created in 1991 to distinguish
SMEs that consider industrial property matters as
an essential element in the defining of their research, innovation and
development policies. Since 2000, research institutions can also be awarded. |
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Key figures (2003) |
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- 15
regional offices |
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- 800
employees, including 650 in the |
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- Budget: 142,3M? |
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- Applications
filed: 16,858 patents, 61,571 trademarks, 6,321 copyrights |
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- 750
training courses for students and 70 training courses for professionals |
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- 680
hours spent by INPI regional delegations to sensitize industry and research
professionals |
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- 14
million pieces of information stocked on the INPI 2003 databases |
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- 85 000
visitors per month on the INPI 2003 website |
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Contact |
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Jean-Baptiste Mozziconnacci |
