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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Section 3: Practice as a company

Article R422-51-9

Each financial holding company of the liberal profession of industrial property attorney is subject, by the Director General of the National Institute of Industrial Property, as soon as it is register…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title II: SAFETY

Article R422-1

…roducts falling within its field of competence; 2° From the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety mentioned in article L. 1313-1 of the Public Health Code when they in…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Section 1: Personalised pathway and republican integration contract

Article L413-5

…mme" provided for in article L. 422-5; 4° A temporary residence permit bearing the wording "private and family life" provided for in articles L. 423-13 or L. 425-9; 5° A temporary residence permit bea…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article R422-55

The request for exemption referred to in 3° of Article L. 422-12 shall be sent to the Minister responsible for industrial property or, by delegation, to the Director of the National Institute of Indus…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: Residence permits for study purposes

Article R422-8

…application of article L. 422-4, the host establishment in France of a foreign national authorised to reside in another Member State of the European Union must first notify the Minister responsible f…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Sub-paragraph 8: Special provisions for non-trading property investment companies

Article L214-115

…e de placement immobilier consist exclusively of : 1° Buildings constructed or acquired with a view to letting and rights in rem relating to such property and listed by the Conseil d'Etat decree refer…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-4

Persons who wish to be represented in proceedings before the National Institute of Industrial Property may only do so, for acts where the technical nature of the subject matter so requires, through th…

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French Intellectual Property CodeIn force
Chapter II: Conditions of practice of the profession of industrial property attorney

Article L422-7-1

Industrial property attorneys may practise their profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 rela…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Chapter II: Residence permits for study purposes

Article R422-9

A foreign national's mobility in France, as referred to in article L. 422-4, may be refused by the Minister responsible for immigration on one of the following grounds:1° The foreign national does not…

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French Code of civil procedureIn force
Section VI: Advertising in international matters

Article 1303-1

…record, at the request of the spouses or of one of them, the record designating the law applicable to the matrimonial property regime, publication of which is provided for in second paragraph of arti…

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