Nathalie FAYETTE
June 10, 2022
The mission of customs is to control the flow of goods from international trade in order to protect the legal economy and consumers. Unfortunately, the customs services in Paris region have seen an increase of almost 19% in their activity over the last two years. Partnership with IP rights holders are essential in the fight against counterfeiting. Indeed, independently and in addition to the filing of trademarks, patents or designs, the Application for Action with Customs is a formidable tool to act quickly and efficiently at a lower cost. This application will materialize the partnership between the customs and the […]
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 […]