A trademark’s legal protection is defined in the Intellectual Property Code
Extract from Chapter VI of the Intellectual Property Code
Section L.713.1 / Registering a trademark confers upon its owner a right of ownership of this trademark for the products and services that he has named.
Section L.716.10 / Copying, using or affixing a reproductive trademark, for products and services identical to those named in the registration are prohibited unless permission is given by the owner.
Section L.716.9 / Whosoever copies, imitates, uses, affixes, deletes or modifies a trademark, a certification collective, in violation of the rights conferred by its registration and the prohibitions which result from this will be fined between 6000F (914 Euros) and 12000F (1829 Euros).
Section L.716.8 / Whosoever possesses, without sufficient reason, counterfeit trademark products or services, or knowingly sells, puts up for sale, provides or offers to provide products or services with such a trademark, and/or delivers a product or provides a service other than the one which he has been asked to deliver or provide with a registered trademark will be punished as set out in the previous section.
The Intellectual Property Code quotes the Pierrade trademark as an example
Section L.711.2 / Illustration of a trademark’s conditional generic nature.
(refer to Pierrade trademark quotations)
