4. Are there differences regarding trademark, copyright and patent licenses, noting any exceptions, e.g., mandatory licensing or standard essential patents?
Trademarks, patents, designs and copyrights, and the according rights to use those IPRs, are valuable assets in the sense of French insolvency law and fall into the insolvency estate. Due to their character as personal rights, several special provisions apply to copyrights, e.g., moral rights are excluded from the insolvency estate. The French IP Code contains some specific provisions aimed at protecting the author in the case of insolvency of publishers or audiovisual producers.