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Overview

Rapid advances in new technologies have led to a host of unique and unprecedented challenges when protecting your innovations. To stake a claim and mitigate long-term risk, you need a highly-skilled team of patent lawyers with extensive experience and an established track record of successfully protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights worldwide.

Our full-service law firm is home to international patent professionals with expert-level strength in prosecution, enforcement, litigation and transactional work across global sectors. We serve a range of clients from startup innovators, universities and research institutes to multi-national corporations. From our offices in Canada, China, Europe and the UK, the Middle East and Singapore our Patent team works to protect, commercialise and enforce patents and industrial designs in a wide range of areas, as well as maximise your patent strategy across the globe. With one of the largest patent drafting and prosecution practices, we also provide direct patent filing in Canada, China, Singapore & UAE and manage large global patent portfolios for many of our clients. In UK and Europe we work with an established and extensive network of experienced attorney firms to provide filing services for both national and European patents as well Unitary Patents. 

We are proud to advise some of the most sophisticated and exacting innovators in the world. Our deep industry knowledge allows us to understand your business at a different level and help you realise the full value of your IP assets.

Our full suite of patent services covers all technology areas, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, consumer products and energy. Our team complements this knowledge with previous academic attainments and earlier careers in biochemistry, physics, engineering, advertising, IT and microbiology. These backgrounds, combined with regular client secondments, ensure a greater insight into the competing priorities and parameters that our clients face every day. Current top in-house priorities cover trade secrets, Supplementary Protection Certificates, FRAND, artificial intelligence and the Unitary Patent system.

Our team in France boasts legal experience in all fields of intellectual property law. Our Patent team works across a comprehensive range of sectors including technology, luxury goods and retail, health and pharmaceuticals, automotive, and manufacturing.

With longstanding experience, we advise on patent strategy and enforcement, licensing and related contracts, providing wide-ranging risk management advice on protection and management of our clients' intellectual assets and trade secrets.

Appearing regularly before the French courts, we have a reputation for excellence, speed, and determination. Our professionals have a deep knowledge of French patent litigation procedures. We are recognised as a major player in the market for patents and handling complex pan-European litigation and disputes, particularly those concerning the internet.

Our experience in the management and enforcement of IP rights also allows us to support our clients in all aspects of non-contentious IP.

Patent services

  • ADR, arbitration & mediation
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Competition law issues
  • Drafting & filing patent and industrial design applications
  • Employee inventions
  • Market clearance / Freedom to operate opinions
  • Open source issues
  • Patent audits
  • Patent enforcement and litigation
  • Patent licensing
  • Patent mining & mapping
  • Patent portfolio management
  • Patent prosecution strategies
  • Plant Variety Rights protection
  • Standard essential patents & FRAND
  • Technology transfer consultancy
  • Trade secrets & confidential information
  • Transactional due diligence
  • Unitary Patent System
  • Utility models

Rapid advances in new technologies have led to a host of unique and unprecedented challenges when protecting your innovations. To stake a claim and mitigate long-term risk, you need a highly-skilled team of patent lawyers with extensive experience and an established track record of successfully protecting and enforcing intellectual property rights worldwide.

Our full-service law firm is home to international patent professionals with expert-level strength in prosecution, enforcement, litigation and transactional work across global sectors. We serve a range of clients from startup innovators, universities and research institutes to multi-national corporations. From our offices in Canada, China, Europe and the UK, the Middle East and Singapore our Patent team works to protect, commercialise and enforce patents and industrial designs in a wide range of areas, as well as maximise your patent strategy across the globe. With one of the largest patent drafting and prosecution practices, we also provide direct patent filing in Canada, China, Singapore & UAE and manage large global patent portfolios for many of our clients. In UK and Europe we work with an established and extensive network of experienced attorney firms to provide filing services for both national and European patents as well Unitary Patents. 

We are proud to advise some of the most sophisticated and exacting innovators in the world. Our deep industry knowledge allows us to understand your business at a different level and help you realise the full value of your IP assets.

Our full suite of patent services covers all technology areas, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, electronics, semiconductor manufacturing, consumer products and energy. Our team complements this knowledge with previous academic attainments and earlier careers in biochemistry, physics, engineering, advertising, IT and microbiology. These backgrounds, combined with regular client secondments, ensure a greater insight into the competing priorities and parameters that our clients face every day. Current top in-house priorities cover trade secrets, Supplementary Protection Certificates, FRAND, artificial intelligence and the Unitary Patent system.

Our team in France boasts legal experience in all fields of intellectual property law. Our Patent team works across a comprehensive range of sectors including technology, luxury goods and retail, health and pharmaceuticals, automotive, and manufacturing.

With longstanding experience, we advise on patent strategy and enforcement, licensing and related contracts, providing wide-ranging risk management advice on protection and management of our clients' intellectual assets and trade secrets.

Appearing regularly before the French courts, we have a reputation for excellence, speed, and determination. Our professionals have a deep knowledge of French patent litigation procedures. We are recognised as a major player in the market for patents and handling complex pan-European litigation and disputes, particularly those concerning the internet.

Our experience in the management and enforcement of IP rights also allows us to support our clients in all aspects of non-contentious IP.

Patent services

  • ADR, arbitration & mediation
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Competition law issues
  • Drafting & filing patent and industrial design applications
  • Employee inventions
  • Market clearance / Freedom to operate opinions
  • Open source issues
  • Patent audits
  • Patent enforcement and litigation
  • Patent licensing
  • Patent mining & mapping
  • Patent portfolio management
  • Patent prosecution strategies
  • Plant Variety Rights protection
  • Standard essential patents & FRAND
  • Technology transfer consultancy
  • Trade secrets & confidential information
  • Transactional due diligence
  • Unitary Patent System
  • Utility models

Client work

Some of our past projects include:

230202-25th-annual-patents-review

Chemical company

Chemical company

Advising on exhaustion of patent rights in France.
Deutschland, Berlin, Apotheke, Medikament, Apotheker im Medizindepot, Medizinschrank, Arznei

Pharmaceutical company

Pharmaceutical company

Advising a pharmaceutical company on regulatory issues and patent litigation across multiple jurisdictions.
221109-clear-drafting-no-ambiguity

Technology company

Technology company

Advising on the law on employee's inventions, including drafting agreements and company's rules on employee invention remuneration.
patent-infringement_1

Life sciences company

Life sciences company

Review of documents for the conduct of clinical trials in France.
230202-25th-annual-patents-review

Chemical company

Chemical company

Advising on exhaustion of patent rights in France.
Deutschland, Berlin, Apotheke, Medikament, Apotheker im Medizindepot, Medizinschrank, Arznei

Pharmaceutical company

Pharmaceutical company

Advising a pharmaceutical company on regulatory issues and patent litigation across multiple jurisdictions.
221109-clear-drafting-no-ambiguity

Technology company

Technology company

Advising on the law on employee's inventions, including drafting agreements and company's rules on employee invention remuneration.
patent-infringement_1

Life sciences company

Life sciences company

Review of documents for the conduct of clinical trials in France.
230202-25th-annual-patents-review

Chemical company

Chemical company

Advising on exhaustion of patent rights in France.
Deutschland, Berlin, Apotheke, Medikament, Apotheker im Medizindepot, Medizinschrank, Arznei

Pharmaceutical company

Pharmaceutical company

Advising a pharmaceutical company on regulatory issues and patent litigation across multiple jurisdictions.
221109-clear-drafting-no-ambiguity

Technology company

Technology company

Advising on the law on employee's inventions, including drafting agreements and company's rules on employee invention remuneration.
patent-infringement_1

Life sciences company

Life sciences company

Review of documents for the conduct of clinical trials in France.
230202-25th-annual-patents-review

Chemical company

Chemical company

Advising on exhaustion of patent rights in France.

Recognition

"Prolific on both the contentious and non-contentious sides, the outfit's French outpost regularly makes its mark in industries as varied as biotechnology and consumer goods."

IAM Patent 1000
Our team is regularly recognised in top legal directory rankings including The Legal 500 and IAM Patent 1000.

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Key contacts

Celine Bey

Céline Bey

Partner

Co-managing Partner (France)
UPC Representative

Paris
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