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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L711-2

The following may not be validly registered and, if registered, may be declared invalid: 1° A sign which cannot constitute a trade mark within the meaning of Article L. 711-1; 2° A trade mark devoid o…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L711-1

A trade mark for goods or services is a sign used to distinguish the goods or services of one natural or legal person from those of other natural or legal persons.This sign must be capable of being re…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L711-3

…subject to its subsequent registration; 3° A well-known trade mark within the meaning of Article 6 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property. The seniority of a registered…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article R711-1

The trade mark shall be represented in the national trade mark register in an appropriate form by means of commonly available technology, provided that it can be represented in that register in a clea…

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French Commercial codeIn force
BOOK IX: Overseas provisions.

Article D910-1 C

I.-In Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and La Réunion, the observatory of prices, margins and incomes mentioned in article L. 910-1 C in addition to its chairman, comprises the following members:…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-2

The provisions of the preceding article shall not apply to a married child.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-3

However, a French child under article 22-1 and who was not born in France has the option of repudiating this status during the six months preceding his majority and during the twelve months following…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: French nationals by birth in France

Article 19-1

Is French: 1° A child born in France of stateless parents; 2° A child born in France of foreign parents for whom the foreign laws of nationality do not in any way allow him to be transmitted the natio…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: Effects of acquiring French nationality

Article 22-1

A minor child, one of whose parents acquires French nationality, becomes French ipso jure if he or she has the same habitual residence as that parent or if he or she resides alternately with that pare…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 2: French nationals by birth in France

Article 19-2

A child whose birth certificate has been drawn up in accordance with Article 58 of this Code shall be presumed to have been born in France.

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