Article 342: Any person who, by means of violence, assault, threats or fraudulent maneuvers, causes or maintains a concerted cessation of work with the intention of forcing an increase or decrease in wages or of undermining the free exercise of trade or work shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of six days to three years and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs, or by one of these penalties only. The attempt shall be punishable. Section 4: Counterfeiting and fraud in trade matters Article 343: Shall be punished by and by imprisonment for three months to three years and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs or by one of these two penalties only, persons who: 1° counterfeit a trademark, service mark or commercial mark or and fraudulently endorse such a trademark belonging to another person; 2° make use of a mark without the authorization of the interested party, even with the addition of words such as “formulae manner, imitation system, or type”; however, the use of a mark made by manufacturers of accessories to indicate the destination of the product shall not be punishable; 3° without legitimate reason, hold goods that they know to be covered by a counterfeit or fraudulently endorsed mark or knowingly sell, offer for sale; supply or offer to supply goods or services under such a mark. Section 5: Unfair competition Article 344: Shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three months to one year and a fine of 100,000 to 1,000,000 francs, or by one of these two penalties only, any person who misappropriates the clientele of another in civil, commercial or industrial matters: 1° by using titles, distinctive signs, trademarks or professional names that are inaccurate or misleading in order to give the impression of special qualities or abilities ; 2° by resorting to measures likely to cause confusion with the goods, processes or products, activities or business of others; 3° by denigrating goods, processes, activities or business of another or by giving inaccurate or misleading information about his own in order to take advantage of them to the detriment of his competitors. Article 345: The maximum penalty shall be doubled if the misappropriation of clientele is done: 1° by granting or offering to employees, agents or auxiliaries of competitors advantages which were not to accrue to them, in order to bring them to reveal a manufacturing, organizational or operational secret;

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