Intellectual Property
We support our clients across various sectors including media, information technology, healthcare (medical devices, pharmaceutical products), construction and real estate development, communications, engineering (chemistry, mechanics…), and leisure throughout the lifecycle of their intangible assets, from creation to valorization, including legal protection.
Areas of practice in intellectual property
Patent law
We provide advice and assistance on matters such as protecting innovations through patent filings, including European patents and unitary effect patents. We support our clients in registration procedures with INPI, EUIPO, and WIPO, and intervene in cases of infringement or litigation.
Design rights
We help protect designs through filing and registration with competent offices. We ensure your creations are secured against counterfeit acts and defend your rights in case of disputes.
Trademark law
We assist in filing and registering French trademarks, European Union trademarks, and international trademarks. We manage oppositions, nullity actions, and protect your trademarks against risks of confusion and counterfeiting.
Copyright
We support our clients in protecting their literary, artistic, and musical works, ensuring compliance with copyright and related rights. We help manage literary and artistic property issues, including publishing, performance, and exploitation contracts. We advise on neighboring rights, protecting the interests of performing artists, phonogram, and videogram producers. We assist in managing royalties and broadcasting rights.
Unfair competition and parasitic practices
We intervene to protect our clients against unfair competition and parasitic practices, defending their intangible assets and know-how. We take necessary actions to stop infringements of your rights and obtain compensation.
Data and databases
We advise on the legal protection of databases, ensuring compliance with the sui generis right of database producers. We help secure your data against unauthorized use and enhance the value of your information assets.
Personality rights
We assist in protecting personality rights, including name rights, image rights, and privacy rights. We intervene in cases of infringement of these rights, particularly regarding defamation or insult.
Media and audiovisual law
We operate in the media and audiovisual sector, advising on production, distribution, and broadcasting contracts. We ensure compliance with the rights of performing artists, producers, and directors.
Business signs, trade names, and domain names
We assist in protecting and managing your business signs, trade names, and domain names, working to prevent cybersquatting and unfair competition risks. We also intervene in disputes to defend your rights.
Trade secrets and business confidentiality
We provide advice on protecting trade secrets and business confidentiality, helping companies implement effective confidentiality measures. We intervene in cases of secrecy violations and take necessary actions to protect your interests.
Examples of support in intellectual property
Awards
Soft intellectual property has always been at the core of De Gaulle Fleurance’ practice, and the ensemble has recently been developing innovative legal technology tools to help add to the seamless full-service offering.
The team of experienced attorneys provide a top-quality service at a reasonable rate. They are highly responsive and provide accurate, pragmatic advice to their clients.
De Gaulle Fleurance operates across all areas of intellectual property law, with particular expertise in copyright and trademark matters. The team's work encompasses both advisory and litigation mandates, including trademark portfolio management and enforcement proceedings. The law firm also offers additional expertise in patent infringement cases. The department is active in various industry sectors, including consumer goods, technology, pharmaceuticals, and life sciences. Its clients include international corporations, national companies, and public bodies.
De Gaulle Fleurance offers a wide range of expertise in copyright matters. The firm represents its clients in litigation before French and European courts and intellectual property offices. The team has extensive know-how in the management of soft IP matters, and assists its clients in particular in copyright validation procedures or in response to copyright infringement. It works closely with the firm's other practices (taxation, competition, employment law).
De Gaulle Fleurance can cover a full range of intellectual property issues: use of trademarks, licensing agreements or management of IP aspects in corporate transactions. The team is particularly expert in handling trademark litigation and appears before French and European courts, as well as IP offices (INPI and EUIPO). The team is also recommended for the management of intellectual property portfolios; aspects that it handles in partnership with the firm's other departments (taxation, competition, employment law).
De Gaulle Fleurance has an excellent reputation in the field of patents, in consulting and litigation. The team regularly acts alongside the firm's corporate and tax law departments, providing comprehensive support to its clients. The firm is particularly consulted on issues relating to patent licenses, R&D agreements and joint ventures. It is particularly sought after by companies specializing in the field of life sciences to assist them in protecting their patent portfolios before French and European courts.
