The GUIGOU law firm offers clients assistance in the development, protection and defense of intellectual property rights, so they may monetize assets and enhance competitive positions.
We work in all areas of intellectual property and other ancillary rights: trademarks, patents, drawings and models, copyrights, know-how and distinctive signs (corporate names, brands, domain names).
Legal counseling in trademark and distinctive signs
Our legal assistance includes:
- Help in selecting trademarks by searching availability and assessing risks of infringement with existing trademarks, corporate names and domain names,
- Registering trademarks in France and in the European Union and coordinating non EU trademark registrations,
- Updating filings with the Trademark Registrars,
- Setting up trademark management and monitoring procedures for continuous trademark protection,
- Auditing intellectual property rights in mergers and acquisitions,
- Drafting and negotiating licensing, transfer and joint ownership agreements,
- Drafting and negotiating coexistence agreements,
- Validating advertising campaigns.
Legal counseling in Patent Law, know-how, drawings and models:
Our legal assistance includes:
- Strategies for the protection of inventions (registration of patents or trade secret),
- Drafting and negotiating confidentiality and non-competition agreements with employees, suppliers and partners for the protection of corporate know-how and sensitive data,
- Drafting and negotiating transfer and license agreements for patents and know-how,
- Advising on the registration of product models, preceded by availability searches,
- Drafting commissioning, licensing and transfer agreements for models.
Litigation in Intellectual Property Law
We represent our clients in administrative and judicial procedures in the following:
- Coordinating with court officers to obtain evidence, and counterfeit seizures,
- Negotiating amicable settlements in case of infringements and drafting settlement agreements,
- Opposition procedures to trademark registrations,
- Injunction procedures to stop the counterfeit of trademarks, patents and drawings and models,
- Unfair competition litigation.
International Legal counseling
Thanks to her legal training abroad (LLM at the Georgetown Law Center and an internship in a firm of solicitors in London) and her professional experience with international companies, the GUIGOU law firm works in both English and French to assist French and foreign companies in :
- Drafting and negotiating contracts,
- Advising on French and European and comparative intellectual property laws,
- Filing of legal proceedings before French courts on behalf of foreign companies and coordinating such proceedings abroad.
