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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Transparency and disclosure requirements

Article L326-4

In response to a duly justified request, collective management organisations shall communicate, by electronic means and within a period not exceeding one month, to the holders of rights managed by the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Tasks and composition

Article L327-4

The Enforcement Board consists of three members appointed by decree: 1° A member of the Conseil d'Etat, chairman, appointed by the vice-chairman of the Conseil d'Etat; 2° A magistrate from the Cour de…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter VI: Preventing the unlawful downloading and making available of works and subject-matter protected by copyright or related rights

Article L336-4

The essential characteristics of the authorised use of a work or protected object, made available by an online public communication service, are brought to the attention of the user in an easily acces…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Scope of protection

Article L342-4

The first sale of a material copy of a database in the territory of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, by the rightholder or w…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by registration

Article L513-4

In the absence of the consent of the owner of the design, the manufacture, offering, placing on the market, import, export, transhipment, use, or possession for these purposes, of a product incorporat…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: The National Institute of Industrial Property

Article L411-4

…trademarks and on oppositions filed against patents for invention, referred to in 2° of Article L. 411-1. Appeals against these decisions are suspensiveIn the exercise of these powers, it is not subj…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Seizure of operating income

Article L333-4

The provisions of this chapter shall not preclude seizures made with a view to the recovery of maintenance claims provided for by the provisions of the Civil Code.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizure for counterfeiting

Article L332-4

Infringement of software and databases may be proven by any means. To this end, any person with standing to bring an infringement action is entitled to have carried out in any place and by any bailiff…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Object of protection

Article L511-4

A design has a character of its own when the overall visual impression which it produces in the informed observer differs from that produced by any design disclosed before the date of filing of the ap…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-4

…al property attorneys whose specialisation, determined pursuant to the last paragraph of Article L. 422-1, is relevant to the act. The provisions of the previous paragraph do not prevent the use of th…

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