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Recently, [35, 22] proposed to watermark convolutional neural networks for image classification, by embedding information into their weights. While this is a clear progress towards model protection, this technique solely allows for extracting the watermark from a network that one accesses locally and entirely. Instead, we aim at allowing the extraction of the watermark from a neural network (or any other machine learning model) that is operated remotely, and available through a service API. To this end, we propose to mark the model's action itself, tweaking slightly its decision frontiers so that a set of specific queries convey the desired information. In the present paper, we formally introduce the problem and propose a novel zero-bit watermarking algorithm that makes use of adversarial model examples. While limiting the loss of performance of the protected model, this algorithm allows subsequent extraction of the watermark using only few queries. 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