Patent and know-how
advice and litigation
In addition to advising on protection and contracts, we represent clients in patent grant disputes, including invalidity actions and oppositions, as well as in court proceedings concerning entitlement and infringement, including customs detentions and seizures.
Protecting and commercialising innovation
A patent may give its proprietor the exclusive right to exploit an invention for up to twenty years.
The proprietor may also grant licences in return for royalties or prevent others from exploiting the invention.
The French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and the European Patent Office (EPO) grant French and European patents respectively.
Innovation
Protection for research and development investments.
Exclusivity
The right to reserve exploitation of the invention for the statutory term of protection.
Licensing
Commercialising patents through licensing agreements and royalties.
From protection to commercialisation
The firm advises and represents clients on patents and helps them develop and implement a considered strategy for protecting, exploiting and commercialising their inventions.
Portfolio management
Advice on managing and organising patent portfolios.
Assignment agreements
Assistance with drafting and negotiating patent assignment agreements.
Licensing agreements
Drafting and negotiating agreements allowing third parties to exploit patents.
Commercialisation
Developing a strategy to enhance the economic and competitive value of patented assets.
Safeguarding protection and freedom to operate
The firm reviews the strength of clients’ protection, including through audits conducted in connection with mergers and acquisitions.
The firm analyses business strategy and competition issues and, where appropriate, recommends measures to secure freedom to operate in view of competitors’ patents.
Portfolio audits
Mergers & acquisitions
Freedom to operate
Enforcing French and European patents
The firm represents and assists clients in disputes concerning French and European patents before the French courts.
French courts
Representation before courts with jurisdiction over patent matters.
INPI
Assistance in proceedings and appeals relating to decisions of the French National Institute of Industrial Property.
European Patent Office
Assistance in European proceedings, including before the EPO Boards of Appeal.
Representation at every stage of patent disputes
The firm represents and advises clients at every stage of a range of patent proceedings.
Challenges to refusals to grant
Infringement seizures
Patent infringement
Customs detentions and seizures
Patent invalidity
Declarations of non-infringement
Interim or injunctive relief
Infringement or invalidity of SPCs
Claims to ownership
Court-appointed technical and financial experts
Employee invention disputes
Enforcement of court decisions
From strategic advice to patent litigation
The firm advises clients on protecting, exploiting, commercialising and enforcing their patents and know-how.
Specialist experience
Decades of experience in intellectual property.
Tailored strategy
An approach tailored to the technical, legal and commercial issues in each matter.
Advice & litigation
Support ranging from structuring rights to enforcing them in court.
European dimension
Advice on issues involving French and European patents.