(3) those who have held without legitimate grounds goods which they knew bore a
fraudulently imitated mark or those who knowingly sold, placed on sale or offered to supply
goods or services under such a mark.
227. Those who have included in their factory marks, trademarks or service marks the
signs prohibited under Article 135(a) above without the authorization of the competent
authorities, and those who have introduced into Morocco, held, placed on sale or sold natural
or manufactured products bearing the said signs as a mark shall be punishable by one to three
months’ imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 dirhams, or by only one of these two
penalties.
228. The court may also order the destruction of the known infringing articles, which
are the property of the infringer, as well as that of the devices or means specifically intended
for carrying out the infringement.
229. The penalties provided for under Articles 225 to 228 above shall apply in respect
of collective marks and collective certification marks.
Chapter VI
Trade names
230. Any usurpation or fraudulent use of a trade name, whether or not it forms part of a
factory mark, trademark or service mark, shall be punishable by the penalties provided for in
Article 225 above.
Chapter VII
Indications of source and appellations of origin
231. The unlawful acts referred to in Article 182 above shall be punishable by the
penalties provided for in Article 226 above, without prejudice to the penalties provided for by
special laws.
Chapter VIII
Industrial awards
232. The following shall be punishable by two to six months’ imprisonment and a fine
of 50,000 to 500,000 dirhams, or by only one of these two penalties:
(1) those who, without entitlement and fraudulently, have claimed the industrial awards
covered by Article 189 above, or have claimed imaginary industrial awards, via affixing to
their products, brand names, advertisements, brochures, letters, commercial documents or
packaging or in any other manner;
(2) those who, in the same conditions, have applied them to articles other than those for
which they were obtained;
(3) those who used awards other than those provided for in Article 189 above
industrially or commercially.
233. Beneficiaries of an industrial award who have used it industrially or commercially
without complying with the provisions of Articles 189, 190 and 198 above, shall be
punishable by a fine of 25,000 to 250,000 dirhams.