OUR DESIGNS AND MODELS SERVICES

FILING OF DESIGNS AND MODELS

We support our clients in securing their rights by filing their French designs and models at the French intellectual property office (INPI), their community designs and models at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and their international designs and models before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

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We also cooperate with a network of carefully selected local experts abroad in order to be able to support you in the filing and management of your designs and models worldwide.

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Our services aim to support you fthroughout the life cycle of your industrial property titles and include in particular:

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• the analysis of our clients' activity and legal needs 

• the study of possible obstacles to the registration of your designs and models (whether it is contrary to public order, whether its representation is inappropriate, etc.)

• the filing of designs and models

• the drafting of responses in the event of potential registration refusals

• the monitoring of the publication and registration of the designs and models

Of course, we also play an intermediary role with our local experts abroad so that you benefit from thebetter quality of service as well as to ensure the defense of your interests in your proceedings all around the world.

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LITIGATION AND PRE-LITIGATION WORK

Our team specializes in the practice of litigation and pre-litigation in matters of intellectual property. We support our clients in cancellation actions directed against registered designs and models before the French intellectual property office (INPI) and before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO).

We also cooperate with a network of local experts around the world recognized for their competence in order to best defend your interests abroad in the event of litigation or pre-litigation with third parties.

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To support you in the context of litigation or pre-litigation, we offer in particular:

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• to assess the chances of success and to formulate a strategy accordingly

• to contact the opposing party and to carry out the negotiations on your behalf

• to complete and submit all the necessary forms in your cancellation actions

• to write all of the legal briefs and others legal writings as part of your cancellation actions both as plaintiff and in defense

With several years of experience and more than a hundred procedures before French and European intellectual property offices, our team is capable of managing large-scale litigation and pre-litigation, including those involving a large number of parallel procedures.

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MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING YOUR DESIGNS AND MODELS

We offer a complete range of services to assist you in the management and monitoring of your designs throughout their life cycle:

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• operating recordals for your designs and models (assignments, changes of name or address, securities, licenses, etc.)

• monitoring and renewing your expiring designs and models 

As your activities and your legal needs evolve in time, we are also available to assess the relevance of your designs portfolio, to update your intellectual property strategy and to take the necessary measures to implement it.

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COEXISTENCE AGREEMENTS AND SETTLEMENTS

The primary goal of our specialists is to resolve disputes in a manner that is as fast, as effective and as inexpensive as possible. Obtaining a binding decision from an intellectual property office should always be a last resort solution - this is why we always favor amicable solutions, in accordance with the ethical duties of French Trade Mark Attorneys.

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We have developed a real expertise allowing us to quickly identify the proposals that are the most likely to enable an amicable outcome to an intellectual property dispute.

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We put our expertise at your service and offer you:

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• to assess the chances of success beforehand and to formulate a strategy accordingly

• to identify and submit to you the elements likely to lead to an amicable solution

• to contact the opposing party and to carry out negotiations with them of your behalf

• to write the agreement solving the dispute while defending your interests

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Thanks to our know-how in this area, more than half of the disputes handled by us have been settled, allowing our clients to save significant time and budget and to benefit from an increase legal security regarding rights held by third parties.

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