The TRADEMARKS, DESIGNS, CONTRACTS team is headed by Laurence Rivière.

It is currently composed of 5 experienced lawyers with academic backgrounds in the best French universities in Business Law and IP Law. Three of them are qualified as French IP Attorneys (INPI) and European Trademark and Design Attorneys (EUIPO).

Laurence RIVIÈRE

Head of Trademarks, Designs and Contracts department,  Partner

Paris

Those experts provide day-to-day support to companies of all sizes

(start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs) in a wide range of areas, including

  • trademark and design law
  • copyright and software/databases,
  • domain names,
  • brand & e-reputation (Internet and social networks),
  • concepts.

They also provide advice and assistance in the field of contracts. Indeed, our lawyers master all contractual aspects and technics applied to intellectual property, and regularly draft contracts (licenses, coexistence agreements, etc.).

Our TRADEMARKS, DESIGNS and CONTRACTS experts work closely with our patent experts from the LIFE SCIENCES and MEDTECH teams, and are also specialised in the management of IP audits prior to fundraising.

Finally, they intervene in defense, as well as in attack, within the framework of litigation before national and supranational offices with the support of the ICOSA network of specialised lawyers throughout the world.

Trademarks

Details of services

  • Distinctiveness analysis and prior art search including regulated and/or protected names (PDO/AOC/IGP, INN, pharm-in use),
  • Filing, registration and exploitation of the project,
  • Administrative procedures (recordals, renewals, responses to provisional refusals issued by the offices),
  • Management of the procedure and deadlines,
  • Monitoring and defense of the trademark,
  • Pre-litigation negotiations, oppositions, cancellation and invalidity actions.

Designs

Details of services

  • Analysis of the proper character and search for anteriority,
  • Filing, registration of the project,
  • Administrative procedures (recordals, renewals, annuities),
  • Management of the procedure and deadlines,
  • Defense of the design,
  • Pre-litigation negotiations, oppositions, cancellation and invalidity actions.

Software / Database Copyright

Details of services

  • Analysis of the functionalities and software bricks,
  • Study of the licences applicable to the integrated free/open-source software bricks,
  • Verification of the chain of rights and drafting of the required transfer contracts,
  • Preparation and management of filings (APA, bailiff, e-soleau envelope),
  • Preparation and management of copyright filings abroad.

Protection of concepts

Details of services

  • Identifying legal markers,
  • Drafting of a legal document proving the paternity and originality of the concept (differentiating elements of the market).

Contracts

Details of services

  • Drafting and assistance in the negotiation of all contracts related to IP (collaboration, consortium, license, assignment, coexistence agreement, transfer of material – MTA, confidentiality agreement – NDA, co-ownership regulation,
  • Study of financial conditions (comparables),
  • Assistance during negotiation meetings.

Domain names

Details of services

  • Registration and renewal of domain names,
  • Strategic reflection on the extensions to secure,
  • Monitoring,
  • Pre-litigation procedures UDRP, ARS, SYRELI, ….

LEGAL AREAS – TRADEMARKS, DESIGNS, CONTRACTS

Our legal areas of expertise cover:

column1-image1Trademarks

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column1-image2Software / Databases

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Our team is highly specialized in each technical field.

Discover their skills