Article L622-5 of the French Intellectual Property Code
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…