French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 1: Object of protection
Article L511-2
Only designs that are new and have their own character may be protected.
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Only designs that are new and have their own character may be protected.
Within a time limit fixed by regulation, the distrainee or the garnishee may request the president of the judicial court to order the release of the seizure or to confine its effects, or to authorise…
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…
…been invited, as the case may be, either to regularise the application or to submit his observations. For designs relating to industries which frequently renew the form and decoration of their produc…
…published in France or abroad is punishable by three years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros. The debit, export, import, transhipment or possession for the aforementioned purposes of the infr…
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…
The civil action for infringement shall be brought by the owner of the design. However, the beneficiary of an exclusive right of exploitation may, unless otherwise stipulated in the licence agreement,…
…ng where such actions and claims concern both a design matter and a related unfair competition matter.
It is prohibited for a professional to solicit or collect collection fees from a consumer under conditions contrary to the
Where the contract of sale relates to movable property, any sum paid in advance of the price, irrespective of the nature of the payment and the name given in the deed, shall bear interest at the legal…
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