Innovation

Innovation is crucial to the development and deployment of any industry.

From invention, through research, development and dissemination (RD&D) and market development, to commercial diffusion, we provide you with legal assistance at each stage of the life cycle of your product.

 

 

  • Trademarks and Domain names
    • Advice and assistance of an international group in choosing the denomination and packaging of a new product before its worldwide launch
    • Management of several national and international trademarks portfolios and designs portfolios in France and abroad
    • Advised a car manufacturer in a projected cobranding partnership with a Swiss watch maker
  • Patents
    • Advice and assistance of an Italian company as to proceedings dealing with a European patent infringement
    • Advice and assistance of a French leading company in inpresseal technology as to the licensing of its patents and know-how to a manufacturer and supplier of complete bottling, packaging and palletizing lines for the beverage and food industry
    • Advice and assistance of a US company as to the assignment of 50 patents in the field of environmental sealing and energy management solutions
  • Geographical indications
    • Advice and assistance of one of the fourteen Deuxièmes Crus (Second Growths) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 before the DGCCRF
    • Assistance and representation in Court of a major Cotes de Provence wine producer
    • Assistance of a significant Union of Bordeaux wine producers in obtaining the protection and the defense of a famous geographical indication
  • Employee’s inventions & status
    • Defense of a French industrial group before the National Commission of Employees’ Inventions (CNIS)
    • Advice and assistance of a company before the CNIS (National Commission of Employees’ Inventions) as to litigations related to the remuneration of employed inventors
    • Advising an international body in defining the status of its agents
  • E-commerce
    • Drafted the model Terms & Sales Conditions for online sales of a French luxury brand
    • Drafted the Terms of Use of a software made available to members of a federation of association active in the education sector
    • Advice and assistance in the drafting and the negotiation of a license agreement as to the implementation and the providing of global software and services dedicated to the manufacture and distribution of fast-moving consumer goods in the circuits of cosmetics mass retail
  • Digital law & data
    • Advice and assistance with the drafting and negotiation of a SAAS contract on behalf of an internationally renowned cosmetics brand
    • Drafted the model IT contracts & software licensing contracts for a US company specialized in providing and managing materials for construction
    • Advising a Belgian company in relation to the providing in France of loyalty cards gathering sensitive and personal data
  • Copyrights
    • Advice and assistance of a studio specialized in 3D animation as to the assignment of its employees and freelancers’ rights
    • Advice and assistance of the right holder of a famous songwriter and composer regarding the recovery of publishing rights on some musical works
    • Advice and assistance of a media group in negotiating copyrights, rights relating to personality as well as related rights of presenters and performers
    • Defense of a portrait photographer further to the worldwide unauthorized use of its photographs
    • Defense of a French group further to the incrimination of the content of its advertising and promotional materials
    • Advice and assistance of a Canadian entertainment company as regards the commercialization of a board game

Investments

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