Intellectual property

What we can do for you

  • Assistance in setting up a strategy for the protection of industrial property rights: trademark search reports, formalities with IP offices in France (INPI), at European level (EUIPO) or internationally (WIPO), coexistence agreements, formal notices, etc.
  • Management of industrial property rights portfolios
  • Definition of and assistance with the implementation of anti-counterfeiting strategies: consultations, formal notices, coordination of counterfeit detection or seizure operations, implementation and monitoring of customs surveillance, etc.
  • Carrying out legal audits of industrial property rights in the context of structuring/restructuring operations
  • Management of legal disputes, drafting of procedural documents and pleadings
  • Management of opposition or cancellation proceedings before IP offices
  • Negotiation and drafting of contracts (licence, assignment of rights, technical collaboration and development contract, transactional protocols, etc.)

Examples of what we have done for others

  • Assistance to a French audiovisual company in the drafting, negotiation and management of copyrights within the framework of a 360° contract and the resulting contracts
  • Assistance to a French company specialized in chemistry for the drafting and negotiation of technology transfer agreements, consortium agreements and confidentiality agreements
  • Representation of an artist ‘s heirs in a dispute over the ownership of a work
  • Assistance and representation of American companies (IT and food industry) in the setting up of a request for intervention with customs, the follow-up of detentions with the customs authorities, the follow-up of legal proceedings (seizures and counterfeiting actions)
  • Assistance and representation of American companies (sports pharmaceutical, medical, personal services, universities, agri-food, IT…) in the filing, monitoring and management of their European trademarks
  • Representation of a French fashion company in trademark litigation (opposition defence before the INPI, cancellation action before the EUIPO, infringement defence before the Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal)

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