IP Patent
Innovations are not only tools for competitiveness and market conquest for the companies and project leaders, in the private and public sectors, who own them: they are also assets, an intellectual heritage that must be protected as such.
Yet too many innovations are lost or under-exploited because the necessary steps were not taken to identify, protect and enhance them.
Innovating is good. Being protected is better.
The IP PATENT team handles every step in obtaining rights, from drafting patents to filing them with industrial property offices in France and abroad.
The technical fields covered span the whole of modern technology, in particular chemistry, pharmacology, electronics, telecommunications, software, biotechnology and mechanical engineering.
Legal risk analysis
- Patentability opinions
- Prior art searches
- Freedom-to-operate studies
Obtaining and maintaining rights
- Drafting and filing of patent applications worldwide
- Handling of examination and grant procedures
- Monitoring and payment of annuities
Exploiting and enhancing rights
- Negotiation, drafting and review of agreements (assignment, licence, franchise, co-ownership, etc.)
- Valuation and enhancement of patent portfolios
- Audits and due diligence
- Recordal of patents in national, European and international registers
- Patent taxation
Watching and enforcement
- Patent watching
- Customs watch
- Technology, competitor and legal monitoring
- Oppositions before the European Patent Office (EPO), disputes and pre-litigation negotiations
- Court actions in cooperation with highly specialised attorneys-at-law (infringement, unfair competition, infringement seizures (saisie-contrefaçon), customs detention, preliminary injunctions, invalidity actions, ownership claims, etc.)
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