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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizure for counterfeiting

Article L332-2

…or to confine its effects, or to authorise the resumption of manufacture or that of public performances or performances, under the authority of an administrator constituted as sequestrator, on behalf…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Scope of protection

Article L342-2

The producer may also prohibit the repeated and systematic extraction or re-utilisation of qualitatively or quantitatively insubstantial parts of the contents of the database where such operations man…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Registration application

Article L512-2

…ion is of such a nature as to be contrary to public policy or morality. Rejection may not be pronounced without the applicant having first been invited, as the case may be, either to regularise the ap…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Criminal provisions

Article L335-2

…ition, drawing, painting or any other production, printed or engraved in whole or in part, in defiance of the laws and regulations relating to authors' property, is an infringement and any infringemen…

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Chapter IV: Miscellaneous provisions

Article L514-2

Regulations specific to certain industries may prescribe the measures necessary to enable industrialists to have their priority of use of a design established, in particular by the keeping of private…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-2

…er, the beneficiary of an exclusive right of exploitation may, unless otherwise stipulated in the licence agreement, bring the action for infringement if, after formal notice, the owner of the design…

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Chapter II: Litigation concerning Community designs

Article L522-2

…decree of the Conseil d'Etat shall determine the seat and jurisdiction of the courts of first instance and of appeal which shall have jurisdiction to hear the actions and claims provided for in Articl…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter II: Information on prices and conditions of sale

Article L112-2

The provisions of Article L. 112-1 apply to all production, distribution and service activities, including those carried out by public entities, in particular under public service delegation agreement…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Information on the social conditions under which products are manufactured

Article L113-2

…is such as to seriously compromise the strategic or industrial interests of the manufacturer, producer or distributor concerned by the request, the latter may decide not to pass it on, provided that…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Article L111-2

…or in article L. 111-1, any trader, prior to the conclusion of a contract for the provision of services and, where there is no written contract, prior to the performance of the service, shall make ava…

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