Category of IP right | Type of limitation | Description | Relevant regulation |
|---|---|---|---|
Patents/Utility models/Designs | |||
Patents/Utility models | Acts performed in private and not for commercial purposes; Acts performed exclusively for trial or experimental purposes; The preparation of medicinal products performed at the time and for individual cases on the basis of a doctor’s prescription at pharmaceutical laboratories; Necessary experiments and acts to obtaining the administrative commercialization authorization; Necessary acts to obtaining the administrative advertising authorization; Objects addressed to be launched into outer space from the French territory. | Intellectual Property Code of 1992 | |
Industrial Designs | Acts performed in private and not for commercial purposes; Acts performed exclusively for trial or experimental purposes; Reproduction for teaching or illustration purposes, subject that such use is loyal and does not affect the usual exploitation of the designs. | Intellectual Property Code of 1992 | |
Topographies of Semiconductor Products | Reproduction for the purposes of analysis, assessment or teaching; Creation of a different topography from the analysis or assessment of the registered topography; The effect of protection shall not extend to a person who acquired in good faith a semiconductor product containing a protected topography and distributed without the consent of the topography owner. | Intellectual Property Code of 1992 | |
Trade Marks | Trademark holder is not allowed to prohibit the following practices: | Good faith use of its previous company name or logo;T The trade mark where it is necessary to indicate the intended purpose of a product or service, in particular as accessories or spare parts. | Intellectual Property Code of 1992 |
Copyright | Private copy; Use of summaries of protected works with criticism, pedagogic, scientific or teaching purposes; A regular selection of press articles (press review); Reproduction or communication to the public of extracts from public speeches, with some exceptions; Use of protected works for advertising of an exhibition or sale of artistic works; Representation or reproduction of protected works parts for teaching purposes, subject this use is neither commercial nor ludic, and that such use is addressed to a public mainly composed by students; Parody; Necessary acts to access a database; Temporary reproduction during a technical transmission process; Non-commercial reproduction by legal persons such as libraries, museums or archives, in order to make the works available to people with disabilities' Public Library or Public Archives, provided that such use is non-commercial and that is necessary to develop their usual activities (conservation etc.). | Intellectual Property Code of 1992 |
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