Intellectual Property & IT Law

The team of Intellectual Property – IT lawyers works for French and international clients in all areas of intellectual property and IT, both in litigation and contractual matters.

The expertise of our team covers in particular:

• all types of litigation concerning intellectual property rights and in particular trademarks, designs and models, patents, copyrights, appellations of controlled origin, as well as unfair competition, both before French courts (civil and criminal) than before the courts of the European Union (General Court and Court of Justice)
• litigation relating to infringements of image rights and privacy
• UDRP proceedings before WIPO in matters of domain names
• administrative procedures before the INPI or OHIM
• the implementation of anti-counterfeiting programs with the help of customs
• advice on intellectual property rights: prior art searches, analysis of the validity of rights, usage surveys, reputation surveys, etc.
• the establishment of policies for companies in terms of intellectual property
• the audit of intellectual property rights portfolios (due diligence)
• the review, drafting and negotiation of all contracts relating to intellectual property (assignment, license, pledge, co-ownership agreements, coexistence agreements, manufacturing and distribution contracts, R&D contracts, collaboration contracts, partnership contracts, contracts with advertising and creative agencies, etc.)