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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter V: Multi-territorial exploitation licences for online rights in musical works

Article L325-3

When a collective management organisation is able to grant authorisations for the multi-territorial exploitation of online rights in musical works in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, it…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Registration application

Article L512-3

An applicant or holder of a filing who has not complied with the prescribed time limits may, if he can show a legitimate excuse, be relieved of any forfeiture he may have incurred.

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

Article L411-3

The administrative and financial organisation of the Institute is laid down by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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

Article L333-3

The unseizable proportion of these sums may in no case be less than four-fifths, where they are at most equal annually to the highest level of resources provided for pursuant to Chapter V of Title IV…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Object of protection

Article L511-3

A design shall be regarded as new if, at the date of filing of the application for registration or at the date of priority claimed, no identical design has been disclosed. Designs are considered ident…

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

Article L513-3

Any act modifying or transmitting the rights attached to a registered design may only be relied on as against third parties if it has been entered in the National Designs Register.However, before it h…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Seizure for counterfeiting

Article L332-3

If the distrainor fails, within a period set by regulation, either to take civil or criminal action on the merits, or to lodge a complaint with the public prosecutor, the entire seizure, including the…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter I: National Design Litigation

Article L521-3

A civil action for infringement shall be barred after five years from the date on which the holder of a right knew or should have known of the last fact enabling him to exercise it.

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

Article L112-3

Where the price cannot reasonably be calculated in advance because of the nature of the good or service, the trader shall provide the method of calculating the price and, where appropriate, any additi…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Chapter IV: Deposits and deposits on account

Article L214-3

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to special orders based on quotations or to sales of products the manufacture of which is undertaken to the buyer's special order.

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