Memorandum force majeure and unforseeability in contract law
The execution of a very large number of contracts has been and will be disrupted by the "Covid-19" crisis. What answers does French private contract law provide?
As we all anticipated, a 15-day confinement measure was announced yesterday by the President of the Republic. Nevertheless, many questions remain unanswered, which we hope to be able to answer in the coming hours or days.
New opposition procedure against applications for French trademark registrations and change of scale pertaining to taxes to be paid in case of opposition, filing and renewal of French trademark registrations.
Decree 2019-1316 of December 9, 2019 relating to “goods or services trademarks” and decree of the same day relating to “taxes pertaining to procedures before the National Institute of Industrial Property” taken in application of Ordinance n ° 2019-1169 of November 13, 2019 came into force on December 11, 2019. Two decisions of the General Director of INPI dated December 11, 2019 supplement the above-mentioned texts.