We advise, support and represent you in all areas of
intellectual property
, both in and outside of court.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Focus areas
- Brands
- Designs and models
- Copyright
- Patents
- Corporate names, trade names, commercial signs
- Geographical indications
- Domain names
- Databases and software
- Unfair competition and free riding
- Image rights
- Advertising
Advisory Services
- Distinctive sign validity and availability analysis (including prior rights searches)
- Negotiation and drafting of agreements (assignments, licenses, coexistence agreements, NDAs, etc.)
- IP rights audits
- Recommended strategies for defending intellectual property rights
- Customs intervention applications
Litigation before civil, criminal and administrative courts and arbitration panels, both in France and in Europe
- Contracts
- Validity of intellectual property rights
- Infringement of intellectual property rights
- Unfair competition and free riding
Selected representations
- Emergency interlocutory proceedings on behalf of a major player in the luxury sector seeking to stop the sale of infringing earrings in a vast network of ready-to-wear stores.
- Appearance before the General Court of the European Union and before the European Court of Justice subsequent to an application for invalidity covering a whisky brand, attacked on the basis of an existing Portuguese designation of origin.
- Represented a global leader in the agri-business industry in the framework of trademark infringement litigation with an ice-cream maker based on the phonetic resemblance of the names in question.
- Represented a leader in the energy sector in emergency proceedings to stop the use of its new company name and visual identity.
- Criminal counterfeit actions commenced following several customs detentions of eyeglasses infringing copyrights and models (registered and not registered) of a major player in the luxury sector.
- Invalidity action concerning a trademark registered in violation of the rights of a mobile applications leader.
- Trademark cancellation proceedings commenced before the EUIPO for non-use of a EU trademark used only in France.
- Drafted a contract commissioning advertising in the spirits industry and assignment of the related rights.
- Regular assistance in verifying the availability of names to be used in France by an American leader in sporting goods.
- Advisor to a leader in prepaid corporate services as to its intellectual property rights defense strategy.