Article 1388: The right of the applicant to familiarize himself with patent materials

The applicant is entitled to consult all patent-related materials referred to in requests, reports, decisions, notifications or other documents received from the FF. of the administrative authority on intellectual property, with the exception of the application documents, which are not available to any person (in particular the application referred to in the notification) If the application has not been published, copies of the patent documents requested by the applicant before the designated federal authority to be sent to him within one month of the date of receipt of the request.