Part Two: Industrial property

Any third party is prohibited from: – reproducing the protected topography; – commercially exploiting or holding, transhipping, using, exporting or importing for that purpose any such reproduction or any semiconductor product incorporating it. This prohibition does not extend: – to reproduction for the purposes of evaluation, analysis or teaching; – to the creation, from such analysis or evaluation, of a distinct topography eligible for protection under this chapter. The above…

The prohibition provided for in the preceding article shall take effect on the date of filing or the date of first commercial exploitation if earlier. It shall vest in the owner of the registration until the end of the tenth calendar year thereafter. However, any registration concerning a topography which has not been exploited within a period of fifteen years from the date on which it was first fixed or…

The articles L. 411-4, L. 411-5, L. 612-11, L. 613-8, L. 613-9, L. 613-19, L. 615-2, L. 615-3, L. 615-5, L. 615-5-1-1, L. 615-5-2, L. 615-7, L. 615-7-1, L. 615-8, L. 615-8-1, L. 615-10 and L. 615-17 shall apply to the conditions and forms in which: -decisions of the Director of the National Institute of Industrial Property referred to in this Chapter are taken; -rights attached to the registration of…

Chapter IVa of Title I of this Book shall apply to this Chapter.