Intellectual Property

Protect innovative ideas

• Defining strategies to protect IP portfolios (in or out of litigation);
• Providing support for innovative projects;
• Carrying out the necessary formalities to protect intangible assets and proof of registration (trademarks, patents, domain names, designs, Soleau envelopes, copyrights, software solutions, databases, site and/or application components and prior rights searches;
• Drafting contracts that protect know-how and business confidentiality (confidentiality, transfers, etc.);
• Drafting contracts governing R&D activity (partnerships, technology transfers, co-ownership, consortium, etc.);
• Securing the transfer of rights to the company in employment contracts concluded with employees (intrapreneurship) and service contracts with external service providers.

Leverage your innovations to generate value

• Managing trademark, patent, design and domain name portfolios;
• Establishing assignment or license agreements for the use of intangible assets (copyrights, patents, trademarks, designs, domain names, software solutions and databases);
• Establishing contracts for the production, co-production, financial participation, publishing, distribution or use of copyright-protected works (audiovisual works, cinematographic works, multimedia and video games, and new media);
• Carrying out audits of IP portfolios to assess and add value to intangible assets.

Defend your rights and interests for your innovations

• Conducting trademarks and domain names watches;
• Defending and protecting image rights and privacy;
• Undertaking opposition proceedings in respect of trademark applications and replies to third party oppositions and objections by national intellectual property authorities;
• Negotiating coexistence contracts or settlement agreements to end disputes over intangible assets;
• Gathering proof of intellectual property rights infringements (bailiff’s reports);
• Executing counterfeit seizures and provisional measures to protect intangible assets (letters of formal notice before litigation on the merits);
• Initiating legal proceedings (infringement, claims, cancellation, unfair competition, parasitism, violation of know-how or business secrecy) or use of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution method;
• Providing assistance before the National Commission on Employees’ Inventions (CNIS), recourse before the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the EUIPO.