Defining and supporting the overall strategy of the clients firm on industrial property matters :

• Audit of intellectual property practice and securing area of improvements.
• Proposal on organization and development of intellectual and industrial non tangible assets.
• Reviewing patent portofolio in view of evolving situations.

Management and support of industrial property :

• Formulating protection strategy by incorporating all options,
  
• Industrial property assistance. Integrating overall strategic prospect and understanding project - market.
  
• Meeting with the research team to assess potential of considered innovative ideas.
  
• Follow up, and possibly suggestions for reorienting innovation project.
  
• Regular status meeting on project and support to strategic decisions.
  
• Regular and timely based issuance of patent trademarks and contrats portofolio.

Know-how :

Assistance - in the securing of "certain" date, - in protecting confidentiality, and maintaining secrecy, specifically via contractual agreements, like confidentiality agreements, collaboration agreements, non analysis agreements, know-how transfer agreements.





Assessment of right of practice and third parties'rights :

• Assessing technology intended to be practiced and product to be manufactured,
• Assessing competitive technologies and processes in view of prior rights,
• Extracting documents free or right which could support right of practice,
• Achieving synthesis and securing options.

Patents :

• Desk research in patent data bases.
  
• Analysis of results and comparison with known prior state of the art
  
• Identification of third party rights. Detection of right of practice and/or acquisition of monopolies.
  
• Drafting patent applications.
  
• Filing in France and world-wide / countries of pertinence.
  
• Follow up procedures and defence with the Examination Offices until grant of a patent.
  
• Financial assessment of the value of a patent in situations such as merger, licensing, partial aggregation of assets.
  
• Administrative and technical management of the files.
  
• Defence of industrial property rights :
  - Action against infringement.
  - Amicable settlements
  - Assistance in case of litigation.
  
• Opposition procedures to patents with the relevant national and international Patent Offices.

Trademarks - Design Models - Domain Names

• Creation of trademarks names.
• Availability searches all geography.
• Filing of national and international applications.
• Management of registration procedures.
• Defense of the applications at the national and international offices.
• Trademarks watching service.
• Amicable negotiation and/or assistance in the case of legal proceedings.
• Management of trademarks transfers and development of portfolio.
• Portfolio management (Trademarks, designs and domain names)

Contractual assistance :

Drafting and assistance in drafting of specific agreements and contracts with accurate industrial property clauses according to the development stage :

• secrecy, research agreement
• co-operation, sub-contracting, license agreement
• sharing, passing over and transfer of know-how agreements
• joint ownership agreement
• licensing agreement
• co-ownership contracts
• other.

Strategic Analysis on technologies - Tapping patent data bases

Determination of protected / winning technologies in a market access chain through analysis of patent situations, particularly application patents.