Services

PATENTS

• Protection strategies
• Patentability and freedom to operate evaluations
• Patent drafting and filing
• Pre-grant procedures
• Prior art searches
• Patent validity evaluations
• Oppositions at the European Patent Office
• Assistance for patent invalidity proceedings
• Technology intelligence and patent watching
• Portfolio management and annuity payments

TRADEMARKS

• Protection strategies
• Validity evaluations, earlier trademark searches
• Preparing class descriptions and filing
• Pre-grant procedures
• Oppositions, invalidity actions, revocation actions
• Trademark watching
• Use evaluations
• Trademark renewals
• Co-existence agreements

COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS

• Protection strategies
• Searches of prior design registrations
• Design validity evaluations
• Filing
• Pre-grant procedures
• Freedom to operate evaluations
• Third party design watching
• Software registration

OTHER IP SERVICES

• Recordals of IP rights on the IP Office registers
• Drafting of licence agreements, assignment contracts and non-disclosure agreements
• Auditing and financial evaluations of IP portfolios
• Legal consultations regarding IP
• Litigation and pre-litigation negotiation
• Discovery (search and seizure) procedures
• Assistance for infringement proceedings
• Pre-litigation actions in the field of domain names (warning letters, UDRP procedures…)
• Accompanying companies in our capacity as trusted experts designated by the French patent office: industrial protection pre-diagnosis, Master Class IP coaching, IP Pass
• Training and awareness-raising in the field of IP