Prior searches
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.
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.
Application / renewal of marks, designs
- Answers to your questions: "why register trademarks and/or designs? how? in which classes? in what form? where?”;
- Full implementation of all registration and renewal procedures for your trademarks, designs and models in France and in every country in the world, information in real time to our customers;
- Docketing of your industrial property rights in our database, monitoring of expiry dates and maintaining the validity of your rights, individualized expiry alerts and the management of renewal procedures for these rights.
Monitoring of marks and designs
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.
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.
Patent applications and protection of inventions
- We assist you in defining the protectable characteristics of your inventions and then drawing up your patent applications in France and abroad, managing your annuities and carrying out any other services relating to invention patents;
- We also provide you with support in the protection of your know-how in cases where preserving the secrecy of your innovation would be preferable.
Disputes
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.
Contractual aspects
- Negotiations, drafting of license contracts and assignment contracts for industrial property titles;
- Drafting of other types of contract relating to intellectual property rights, such as coexistence agreements, letters of consent, assignment of user rights for copyrights, know-how transfer contracts;
- Filing procedures for legal instruments relating to industrial property titles.
Legal advice and auditing
- Legal and technical analysis, taking into account the economic and competitive factors;
- Research and analysis of case law and jurisprudence;
- Rationalization and optimization audit of your portfolios of intellectual property rights;
- Definition and support of the commercial and promotional strategies relating to your intellectual property rights;
- Training your employees, in order to raise their awareness or optimize their knowledge in the field of intellectual property.
Domain names / Internet
- Audit and optimization of your portfolio of domain names;
- Reservation of domain names (national and generic extensions);
- Expiry date management with renewals of domain names;
- Monitoring domain names to prevent the reservation of identical or similar names with non-reserved extensions and/or attempted counterfeiting / unfair competition / parasitism;
- Recovery of your domain names / if necessary launching of pre-litigation phases and/or arbitration procedures;
- Internet pre-litigation : cybersquatting, spamming, typosquatting, phishing.
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