Nathalie FAYETTE
June 3, 2022
Our firm has recently been referenced as an Expert by BPI France in the framework of its new program called “Intellectual Property Strategy and Intangible Assets Valuation“. This diagnosis is aimed at SMEs and ETIs (intermediate-sized enterprise) seeking to develop the protection of their intellectual property and structure their intangible assets (patents, designs, trademarks, software, data). The objective of the support offer is to finance, up to 80%, an analysis and consulting service carried out by an Expert in the protection, structuring and valorization of intellectual property, More precisely, the diagnosis includes : An audit of the existing intangible assets, […]
May 24, 2022
Is the author of a work of art the one who imagines it, or the one who executes it? A questioning which will perhaps find an answer on July 8 by the Judicial Court of Paris which will have the pleasure to arbitrate this debate as old as art, after the hearing of this Friday May 3. The art world is shivering… Here are the facts: Maurizio Cattelan, Italian star of contemporary art and provocation is the subject of a complaint* by one of his regular sculptors, the Frenchman Daniel Druet, for infringement of the latter’s copyright. (*complaint also targeting […]
May 20, 2022
The Hague System for the international registration of industrial designs continues to expand with a new Contracting Party to the 1999 Geneva Act. The industrial property title of “Design” makes it possible to protect the appearance of a product. Sometimes neglected by companies, even though they are aware of the protection of inventions by patents or names by trademarks, this protection is nevertheless essential since the aesthetics of your product is often decisive for the consumer and requires financial and human investments. Acquiring a monopoly on the aesthetics of your product requires reflection in parallel with its conception, since the […]
May 13, 2022
On February 10, 2012, the Paris Court of Appeal defined Ambush marketing as “the fact, for a company, to makes itself visible to the public during a sporting or cultural event in order to associate its image with it, while avoiding paying the organizers and becoming an official supporter.” This practice implies an aggressiveness on the part of the author, the ambusher, to divert the attention of the public of an event to his profit. Fortunately, event organizers are not helpless against this kind of behavior. They have the possibility to register the relevant identification elements such as the title […]