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Before filing a trademark, a designor a patent application, the company must devote its full attention to a key preliminary phase – the search amongprior rights.
If no prior search is conducted or if the search is poorly executed, the company may be exposed to charges of infringement of third party rights. The adoption and registration of a new industrial property right are sensitive operations that have to be carried out in a complex legal context, and conflicts are by no means rare.
Before filing an application for a new industrial property right, prior search enables us to identify the potential obstacles constituted by previous rights, and it also often enables us to establish a workaround strategy to prevent the company from any such constraints.

• Our searches can be conducted in France, the European Union and at global level;
• Our search reports are systematically accompanied by an analysis together with comments and proposed actions to attempt to overcome any obstacles.

This service consists of keeping a watchful eye on official registers in order to inform you regularly of any recently published identical or similar trademarks, designs.

In the case of registered trademarks, this monitoring service enables the owner of a trademark to oppose the registration of identical or similar marks within the deadlines defined by the procedure (for example within two months of publication in France, and three months for the Community Office) for a cost well below that of a legal procedure. Trademark monitoring also has the advantages of forestalling any claim of tacit waiver of a registered trademark after a period of non-use and also the prevention of trademark dilution. Monitoring also increases the value of the trademark. In France, this service can also be supplemented by the monitoring of company names in the Trade Register.

Our monitoring bulletins are systematically accompanied by comments and full budgeting of our proposed interventions.

On the basis of their experience, our firm’s intellectual property attorneys are able to define the best strategies to adopt in the case of dispute and/or litigation.

• Sending warning letters, conducting negotiations where applicable;
• Filing and conducting opposition procedures against trademarks and patents;
• Handling the administrative procedures of legal actions for the cancellation of trademarks, designs and patents;
• Management and follow-up of administrative appeal procedures concerning trademarks, designs and patents;
• Management and support in legal procedures relating to actions for infringement, unfair competition and parasitism.