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

Article L713-5

…rvices, not authorised by the proprietor of a well-known trade mark within the meaning of Article 6 bis of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, shall not constitute an infri…

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

Article L713-3

The use in the course of trade, in relation to goods or services, of a sign identical with, or similar to, the trade mark which has a reputation and which is used in relation to goods or services iden…

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

Article L713-3-1

In particular, articles L. 713-2 and L. 713-3, the following acts or uses: 1° Affixing the sign to the goods or to their packaging; 2° Offering the goods, placing them on the market or holding them fo…

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

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
Title I: Trademarks and service marks

Article L713-3-3

Where there is a risk of infringement of its rights, pursuant to articles L. 713-2 to L. 713-3-1, as a result of use in the course of trade for goods or services, of packaging, labels, markings, secur…

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

Article L713-4

The right conferred by a trade mark does not entitle its proprietor to prohibit its use in respect of goods which have been put on the market in the European Union or in the European Economic Area und…

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

Article L713-6

I. - A trade mark shall not entitle its proprietor to prohibit a third party from using, in the course of trade, in accordance with honest practices in the trade: 1° Of his surname or address where th…

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

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

Article L713-1

The registration of a trade mark confers on its proprietor a right of ownership in respect of that trade mark for the goods or services which it has designated.This right is exercised without prejudic…

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French Consumer CodeIn force
Title V: PENALTIES

Article L453-7

Violation of the prohibitions set out in article L. 433-2 is punishable by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 300,000 euros.

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