Le 18 janvier 2023, le Tribunal de l'Union européenne a rendu un arrêt dans une affaire opposant la demande de marque...

The judgment is of particular importance since it appears to represent a reversal in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence.

On 17 September 2015, the French Constitutional Council ("Conseil Constitutionnel") issued a decision partly repealing law no. 2010-729, dated 30 June 2010, as amended by law no. 2012-1442, dated 24 December 2012, prohibiting the use of bisphenol A in food packages, thereby promoting the principle of free enterprise to the detriment of the precautionary principle.

The European Court of Human Rights validates the French position by ruling that the employer may freely consult a file that is not identified as private by the employee ...

The Versailles Appeal Court issued a decision as regards assessment of likelihood of confusion between two French trademarks composed of Chinese characters.

On 2 July 2014, the 1st Civil Chamber of the French Cassation Court reaffirmed that a tortfeasor is liable for all consequences resulting from his or her tort. The victim of the tort has no duty to mitigate losses in the interests of the tortfeasor.

Par un arrêt du 13 février 2023, la Cour d'appel de Rennes a confirmé le jugement du tribunal judiciaire et a annulé la marque verbale française CREDENCE INOX, déposée en 2008...

Please see our Update for July 2014 for further details on the facts and legal background of this case involving a French taxpayer who was trading in Dutch equities derivatives.

A French bank, acting from its head office, had advanced loans to various branches located in China, Philippines, India, Singapore, and Thailand.

As discussed in previous French Tax Updates, the treatment of French source dividends paid to foreign nonprofit organizations (NPOs) raises the issue of comparability of NPOs with French nonprofit organizations.

Orrick's Jean-Pierre Martel, Anne-Sophie Kerfant and Diane Lamarche achieved a tremendous victory last week in a decision that has been hailed as a "surprise verdict" by the New York Times.

On June 17, 2025, the French Supreme Court handed down a ruling that clarified the French Competition Authority's power to conduct investigations and initiate search-and-seizure operations in regulated sectors.

On 2 April 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that two dawn raids carried out by the French Competition Authority in 2007 infringed Articles 6(1) and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

On 22 October 2015, the Paris Civil Court handed down a judgment concerning environmental exposure to asbestos which could pave the way towards compensation of neighbours of industrial sites.

La Cour d'appel de Paris a confirmé le 2 novembre dernier l'absence de contrefaçon de la marque figurative 3 bandes...

Bien connu des amateurs de vins, le classement de 1855 des vins bordelais* est une classification officielle publiée le 18 avril 1855, à la demande de l'Empereur Napoléon III à l'occasion de l'exposition universelle.

Il a fait l'objet de nombreux arrêts, dont deux rendus par la Cour de cassation, et la Cour d'Appel de Paris a à nouveau statué le 10 février 2023.

The Conseil d'Etat recently referred to the Conseil constitutionnel three interesting QPC in the field of taxation.

Following a Judgment of April 17th, 2015 of the Paris Court of Appeal, internet advertising becomes subject to the ordinary law regime of purchase of advertising space on other media...

The French tax authorities challenged, under the abuse of law doctrine, the tax deduction of the interest payments made by FCo, on the grounds that the issuance of the ORAs was purely tax motivated.