Intellectual property

The lawyers at Grall & Associés assist you in the following areas:

• Advice and support for theprotection of all the distinguishing marks and intellectual property rights of companies (trademarks, copyrights, patents, designs and models, software, databases, know-how, business secrets, ),
• Advice and validation of product launches and promotional activities, prior art searches,
• Procedures for the filing and registration of trademarks, audit of brand portfolios, adversial procedures before the French Intellectual Property Institute (INPI) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) (formerly Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)),
• Assistance in the drafting of operating agreements (licence, coexistence, etc.) or assignment of intellectual property rights, partnership and sponsorship activities,
• Advice and litigation in matters involving infringement, unfair competition and parasitic competition, including investigative measures (infringement-seizure and investigative measures in futurum) and Customs and DGCCRF activities.
• Defence of the rights of ownersof distinguishing marks on the Internet, defence in matters involving trademarks and domain names, particularly in the context of selective distribution networks,
• Litigationin the field of information technology, software licences, contractual non-performance, monitoring of expert evaluations,
• Advice and litigation relating to ownership of computer data and databases,
• Advice and support in matters relating to image rights and personality rights.