Trademarks are governed by Part VII of the French Intellectual Property Code including notably:
- Law No. 64-1360 on Trademarks and Services Marks, dated December 31, 1964; Law No. 91-7 on Trademarks and Services Marks, dated January 4, 1991; and Law No. 2014-315 Reinforcing the Fight Against Counterfeiting, dated March 11, 2014 .
- EU Regulation 2017/1001 and Directive 2015/2436 on the European Union Trademark, dated December 16, 2015.
- The reform of trademark law resulting from the transposition of the "trademark package" was implemented by Order No. 2019-1169 of November 13, 2019 and its implementing decree. These texts largely modify the provisions of Part VII of the Intellectual Property Code to create a new trademark law.
France became a member of the Madrid Agreement in 1892.
France became a member of the Madrid Protocol in 1997.
France became party to the Trademark Law Treaty in 1995.
Following approval by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament, the Regulation on the protection of geographical indications for artisanal and industrial products (GIPAI) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on October 27, 2023.
It creates a single system of protection for industrial and artisanal products throughout the European Union, following the example of agri-food geographical indications.
This regulation will come into force in December 2025, and will complement the French system in place since 2014 and operated by the INPI. The INPI will continue to examine applications at national level, before forwarding them to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) for registrations at European level. The INPI will also be able to transform geographical indications already registered locally, directly at European level, without having to carry out a new registration procedure.