Dreyfus
Propriété industrielle & économie numérique
Intellectual property in the digital age
Consulting
Trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, classification, territorial protection, domain names, extensions, advertisement…registering and protecting your company’s intellectual property rights is often a huge challenge.
Going beyond technical dexterity and procedures, early analysis, knowledge and understanding of the issues at stake on top of anticipating the consequences of the medium-term choices can be critical for both the future impact of your trademarks and your company’s economic future.
To help you through the decision-making process concerning your intellectual property rights, Dreyfus will assist and advise you. Our team of experts has earned an international reputation that has placed them in the upper echelon of professional advisors, linking the digital economy to intellectual property.
Services :
- Trademarks, designs, patents, domain names and appellation of origin, portfolio managements: We will advise and assist your company in valorization and protection of intellectual property titles.
- Legal audit, financial rationalization, budget forecast and IP tax law matters.
- Licensing and IP transactions on your company’s intellectual property titles.
- Analysis of your company computer needs concerning IP laws and monitoring of its Internet presence.
- Advice on counterfeiting and unfair competition cases.
- Advice and assistance for litigation, arbitration and disputes.
Financial assessment and enhancement
Dreyfus will also accompany you in the financial evaluation of your intellectual property rights and mainly your trademark rights. These rights are company assets whose importance must not be overlooked, in accounting in particular. It is therefore essential to appreciate fairly the value of these rights. Dreyfus provides its services to study the value of your rights and enhance their benefits.
With its broad fields of business and its openness of mind, Dreyfus offers an overview of your rights whilst taking into account the context in which your rights evolve, their strengths and weaknesses as well as the legal risks encompassing them. The calculation methods used are in accordance with the ISO 10668 standard.
Services :
- Study of the context surrounding your intellectual property rights;
- Analysis of your intellectual property rights, including their strengths, weaknesses and the risks they are subject to;
- Financial assessment of your intellectual property rights;
- Protection and enhancement of your rights;
- Transfer of ownership, including contract drafting ;
- Adaptation of the calculation method based on your rights.
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Trademark reform package – Changes regarding the invalidity proceedings
Posted on 26 June 2019
Our study of the draft orders transposing the Directive (EU) 2015/2436 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 16, 2015, leads us today to examine the invalidity action. The owner of an earlier mark who is instituting invalidity proceedings may now be opposed by the defendant non-use of the earlier mark. In addition, the invalidity action becomes imprescriptible.
The EUIPO and EURid have launched a new monitoring service for .eu and .ею domain name registrations.
Posted on 24 June 2019
On May 20 2019, EUIPO and EURid announced in two separate press releases that they have launched a new monitoring service for domain names in .eu and .ею (See EUIPO press release and EURid press release).