Intellectual Property

See intellectual property rights in a new light! An innovative 360° approach to intellectual property.

Global approach, international dimension

Raising our customers’ awareness of the often overlooked value of their intellectual property rights is the primary objective of our law firm.

Working closely with our customers to develop a dynamic, proactive approach to tailor-made asset management that integrates their challenges and development prospects is what enables us to move mountains and win the trust of long-standing customers over the years.

Most of our lawyers and jurists have completed their legal training with a higher education at a business school, as well as several years in multinational companies. This dual training and international experience enables our team to advise clients from an economic point of view, turning the valuation of intellectual property assets into development milestones, growth levers and even a source of profit.

Our trademark, design and copyright portfolio managers work hand in hand with our customers’ general management to determine the scope of exclusivity that will ensure the serenity of their investments; we take into account the current and potential exploitation of products and services, as well as our customers’ prospects for international expansion.

This global approach covers all aspects of intellectual property law, from distinctive signs to new technologies and creations. Our firm provides both advisory and litigation services, in France and abroad, with the support of a network of over a hundred IP attorneys.

Industrial property

– Audit of industrial property assets:

* Distinctive signs (trademarks, trade names, company names, domain names, etc.)

* Technical and aesthetic inventions (patents, designs, trade secrets)

– Support for mergers and acquisitions;

– Risk analysis and litigation anticipation;

– Drafting of licensing and assignment agreements and clauses;

– Definition and implementation of global strategies for the rational valuation of industrial property titles;

– Prior art searches and usage surveys;

– Secure, in-house management of industrial property portfolios: filing, registration and renewal of trademarks, designs, patents and domain names; direct monitoring of registration procedures with industrial property offices in Europe (INPI, EUIPO, WIPO); supervision of the same procedures abroad via an experienced network of local agents; drafting of legal briefs in response to objections from offices; management of registrations following structural changes or assignment or licensing operations;

– Worldwide trademark monitoring; oppositions; revocation actions; nullity actions;

– Monitoring of worldwide counterfeiting markets and online Internet watch;

– Development and deployment of global anti-counterfeiting strategies targeting all economic players from the production chain to distribution in shops, boutiques, shopping malls and on the Internet; a pioneer in the implementation, on several continents, of the legal principle of complicity through the provision of means in the fight against counterfeiting, our team offers its customers an atypical strategy aimed at mobilizing economic intermediaries from one end of the value chain to the other (lessors, marketplaces, means of payment, carriers, etc.);

– Training of law enforcement authorities;

– Requests for customs intervention; follow-up on customs detentions and counterfeit seizures

– Notification and removal of disputed online offers on platforms, marketplaces, independent sites and social networks;

– Drafting and sending of formal notices; negotiation of settlement protocols; management of settlement indemnities;

– Legal action for infringement, unfair competition and parasitism;

– Participation in legal mediation.

Literary and artistic property

– Audit of copyrights (ownership, originality);

– Constitution of certain dates of creation; copyright registration;

– Prior art searches;

– Contracts for licensing or assignment of copyright (salaried creations, etc.);

– Relations with collecting societies (SACEM, SACD, etc.);

– Copyright litigation.