Title: | Article 13 no.4 of the Patent Law of 14/01/1998, as last amended on 27/02/2003 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Exhaustion of rights |
Summary table: |
Article 13. Actions Not Considered as an Infringement of the Exclusive Right of the Patent Owner
The following is not recognized as an infringement of the exclusive right of the patent owner:
4) application of means containing objects of industrial property protected by patents if these means are introduced into an economic turnover in a legal way in compliance with the rights granted by a patent owner. In this case the person who under the permission of the patent owner acquires a mean containing patented object of an industrial property or manufactured with the use of the patented method, shall have the right to use or dispose this mean without additional permission, unless otherwise is provided by the agreement.