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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 […]

Until now you reserved your domain name (name of your company, your brand…) on the Internet (“the web”) in geographical or generic extensions: masociete.fr, masociete.com, masociete.design… But have you ever been asked to reserve your domain name on “the blockchain”, “the web3”, in extensions corresponding to cryptocurrencies (.eth .wallet .nft .888 .bitcoin…), as a defensive measure (to protect your brand in this universe), or to fit your activity? Ex: reserve your domain name masociete.eth, via the ENS registry on the ETHEREUM blockchain, a name that you will pay with a token of the corresponding cryptocurrency, Ethereum. ⇾ Beware, these new […]

The entire MARK & LAW team would like to thank its clients and partners for their active and warm presence during our training day on March 24 at the Château de Sans-Souci.

The Madrid and Hague systems continue to grow and will soon include a new country! Indeed, from May 6, 2023, it will be possible to protect your trademark and your design in Mauritius via the international procedure, which allows you to file an industrial property title in several countries through a centralized application at preferential costs. The Madrid System simplifies the trademark registration process through the filing of a single international trademark application for up to 130 countries now, and a centralised management system, where each state examines the application independently from each other, according to their own legislation. Thanks to the simple […]

Nathalie FAYETTE and Eleonore Dauphant will represent MARK & LAW at the next INTA Annual Meeting in Singapore from 16-20 May, 2023. They will be delighted to meet you on this occasion and to exchange with you. For more information on the INTA 2023 Annual Meeting, click here.

The most fervent fans of Scandinavian mythology and medieval legends know trolls as unfriendly supernatural creatures, but did you know that even trolls have crossed time and evolved into a version 2.0, or even 3.0? Forget the deformed and frightening creature, the troll has now become a much more banal character, but still as unfriendly. He has diversified his activities and now finds happiness in intellectual property. And his new hobbyhorse is the defense of copyrights on press agency photographs.   Don’t be mistaken, the troll keeps his malicious spirit and is not so much attached to the defense of […]

MARK & LAW is very happy to join the Entreprise des Possibles! L’Entreprise des Possibles (meaning The Company of Possibilities) is a territorial solidarity collective made up of companies that join forces with their employees to help the homeless, especially homeless women and their children, in Lyon and its surroundings. This is a highly innovative model of social commitment that aims to use the resources of companies (human, financial, real estate, etc.) to help those in the field (associations and institutions) who provide assistance to the most vulnerable. This virtuous model is in line with the values of Mark & Law, […]