Intellectual 
 property law

 

Intellectual property refers to creations of the mind, a notion that covers not only works of art and inventions, but also computer programs and trademarks and all other intangible assets of business life.

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Why rely on SCAN Avocats?

The firm has designed a complete range of services that allows its team to support their clients no matter their needs, at each step of the innovation and creation process, with a view to enhancing value at minimal cost.

Trademark, design and model law

• Prior art and availability searches in France and abroad
• Distinctiveness and validity study
• National, European and international filings and renewals, and monitoring of administrative procedures (notifications, oppositions) in France and abroad
• Monitoring, with analysis of results and recommendations (France, EU and worldwide)
• Pre-litigation (formal notices, objections, negotiations, acquisitions)
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts (assignment, license, coexistence agreements, letters of consent, confidentiality agreements, transactions, co-ownership agreements, distribution contracts, franchise agreements, consortium agreements, commercial partnership agreements, service provider agreements)
• Competitive intelligence and opinion polls
• Audits, valuation and financial evaluation
Trademark, design and model law

Civil and penal litigation - Anti-counterfeiting

SCAN Avocats intervenes on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants before civil and penal courts, and also before specialized national (CNIS), European (TEU, CJEU) and foreign courts competent in matters of intellectual property as well as in the context of extrajudicial conflict settlement procedures (WIPO, NAF, CAC, AFNIC, etc.), whether in terms of counterfeiting, unfair competition, parasitism, or even misleading or comparative advertising, defamation, disparagement or contractual liability,
SCAN Avocats works in close collaboration with customs and police authorities in the field of anti-counterfeiting, in France and abroad.
Civil and penal litigation - Anti-counterfeiting

Copyright

• Rights analysis
• Proximity risk analysis
• Formulation of protection strategies
• Filings (E-SOLEAU, bailiff's reports, Agency for the Protection of Programs (APP), blockchain)
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts (operation, transfer, publishing)

Copyright

Patents and inventions of employees

• Definition of inventions (attributable to the employer or not, know-how)
• Assignment agreements and assignment clauses in employment contracts
SCAN Avocats also acts in litigations involving patents (validity and counterfeiting) in close collaboration with its ICC patent partners.
Patents and inventions of employees

Domain names

• Availability and freedom of use searches

• Filing and management of all extensions (gTlds, ccTlds, newgTlds)

• Audits

• Monitoring with analysis of results and recommendations (France, Europe, worldwide)

• Provision of an exclusive platform dedicated to the management of domain names

• Pre-litigation: notifications, formal notices and amicable recovery

• Litigation: 
 - extrajudicial procedures (UDRP, SYRELI and similar) on an international scale,
   - legal proceedings

• Financial evaluation and transactions, valuation of domain names and of portfolios

• Strategic advice (naming policies, litigation grids, intra-group management, portfolio optimization and consolidation)


Domain names

Advertising and communication law

SCAN Avocats supports its clients in the various steps of their creative activities, from the search for names and logotypes, to the drafting of order contracts, terms of services, legal notices, and the validation of advertising campaigns in view of regulatory constraints (Evin Law, Toubon Law, health regulations, consumer law)
Advertising and communication law

They trust SCAN Avocats

SCAN Avocats manages and protects portfolios of trademarks, designs & models and domain names for French groups present internationally in various sectors such as transport, agri-food and food service industries, pensions, property, pharmaceuticals, IT and fashion.

The firm represented a company in the transport sector in a litigation won at first instance and on appeal, relating to an alleged infringement of the moral rights of an architect.

SCAN Avocats successfully defended a restaurant brand sued by a competitor for unfair competition and parasitism, in particular on concept and layout.