IP Web
Information and communication technologies (ICT) bring businesses new opportunities and new sources of productivity, but they also raise as many new intellectual property issues: from cybersquatting of domain names to sponsored links, from counterfeits on online auction sites to copied online terms of sale, from website content scraping to database extraction.
IP SPHERE developed specific expertise in the ICT sector very early on, particularly in domain names.
The IP WEB team offers a wide range of legal services, including:
Legal risk analysis
- Domain name availability searches
- Freedom-to-operate studies for domain names
- Strategies to recover or clear domain names
Obtaining and maintaining rights
- Domain name registration worldwide
- Handling of registration procedures
- Domain name management (data updates, registrar transfers, web and email redirection)
- Monitoring of expiry dates and renewal management
Exploiting and enhancing rights
- Negotiation, drafting and review of agreements (purchase or sale of domain names)
- Valuation and enhancement of domain name portfolios
- Financial audits
- Domain name taxation
- Review of e-commerce websites (drafting or supervising online terms of sale, mandatory legal notices and filings with the CNIL, the French data protection authority)
- Drafting and review of website development and assignment agreements
Watching and enforcement
- Domain name watching
- Domain name watching with automatic re-registration as soon as a name becomes available
- Monitoring of domain name activation or status changes
- Detection of trademark misuse in online advertising networks
- Detection of multilingual document plagiarism (technical documentation, copied adverts, press plagiarism, sales material, contracts, etc.)
- Detection of copied images and logos
- Complaints before the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
- Resolution procedure for manifest infringements (.fr domain names)
- Court actions in cooperation with highly specialised attorneys-at-law (infringement, unfair competition)
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