Nathalie FAYETTE

As the fine weather returns to France, the fear of forest fires remains. 2022 was marked by major fires in Europe, resulting in a sad record of 785,000 hectares burnt by the end of 2022. Heavy ecological and human consequences were to be deplored. In response to this scourge, the European Patent Office (EPO) has created a new Espacenet platform, providing worldwide access to patent information. This information comes from the EPO’s public databases, containing over 140 million documents. This information is intended to give inventors, scientists and engineers access to techniques developed in the field of forest fires. The […]

All these years you’ve been reserving Internet domain names all over the place, you’ve bought a company and taken over all its names and you renew them every year… Yes, but… why not take a look at this treasure? To renew your names, change their host, modify site content? You (or ◊ your CFO ◊ your accountant) must have the double, to access at any time the passwords and logins of the hosts of your names – gathered in a list preciously kept up to date (and secret) by ◊ your IT team ◊ webmaster ◊ assistant ◊ ad agency […]

Since March 3, 2004 and the entry into force of the organic law transferring to French Polynesia numerous competences, including economic competences, industrial property titles (patents, trademarks, designs and models) no longer automatically cover the territory of Polynesia. In order for your rights to be maintained, for titles already registered, or recognized, for new filings, it is necessary, in the first case, to request recognition from the General Directorate of Economic Affairs (DGAE) of Polynesia and, in the second case, to specifically request protection in Polynesia when filing your titles with the INPI, subject to payment of an additional fee. […]

Invented in 1851 by Isaac Merrit Singer in New York State, the famous sewing machine that revolutionized clothing manufacturing had already been the subject of a legal battle over paternity and the patents that had been filed on the invention since its birth. The company had intellectual property in its DNA, and both the technology and the brand were successfully protected. In 1855, Singer Company opened a subsidiary in Paris and became one of the first international brands. In 1901, the SINGER company clearly indicated on the instruction manual that it was a “trade mark” (photograph above). It is an […]