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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Transferable debt securities.

Article L228-36-A

Companies limited by shares may issue any debt securities under the terms of this Book and any other debt securities under the terms of the Articles of Association or, where applicable, the issue agre…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Paragraph 1: The Board of Directors and General Management

Article L22-10-3

The provisions of article L. 225-18-1, relating to the minimum proportion of directors of each gender, are applicable without threshold conditions to companies whose shares are admitted to trading on…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Exclusive right of exploitation

Article L613-2-3

…ecific properties extends to any biological material obtained from that biological material by reproduction or multiplication and endowed with those same properties.The protection conferred by a paten…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Criminal proceedings

Article L615-14-3

Corporate entities held criminally liable, under the conditions set out in article 121-2 of the Criminal Code, of the offence defined in Article L. 615-14 shall, in addition to a fine in accordance wi…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: European patents with unitary effect

Article L614-16-3

A French patent may cover an invention for which a European patent with unitary effect has been granted to the same inventor or his successor in title with the same filing or priority date.

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Invalidity of the trade mark

Article L716-2-3

…goods or services for which it is registered and which are relied on in support of the application, during the five years preceding the filing date or priority date of the later trade mark, in accorda…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Customs detention

Article L716-8-3

During the withholding period referred to in Article L. 716-8 and in the second paragraph of I of Article L. 716-8-2, the owner of the registered trademark or the beneficiary of the exclusive exploita…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 2: Counterfeiting litigation

Article L716-4-3

…goods or services for which it is registered and which are relied on in support of the application, during the five years preceding the date on which the infringement action was brought, in accordance…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by the trade mark

Article L713-3-4

Where the reproduction of a trade mark in a dictionary, encyclopaedia or similar reference work, in printed or electronic form, gives the impression that it constitutes the generic term designating th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter III: Rights conferred by the trade mark

Article L713-3-2

Subject to the application of the provisions of Article L. 716-4-4, the introduction into the national territory, in the course of trade, of goods, without their being put into free circulation there,…

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