Meet the team

Deals

Goyard St-Honoré

Nathalie Moullé-Berteaux and her team has successfully obtained sanctions from the Paris courts against Fauré Le Page Paris and Fauré Le Page Maroquinier, respectively incorporated in 2009 and 2011 for misleading references to the seniority, heritage, and know-how of a three-hundred-year-old gunsmith house Fauré Le Page of which it had taken over neither the goodwill nor the activity.

  • On June 1, 2023, the enforcement judge confirmed the Appeal Court’s outstanding precedent in the matter of “belles endormies” brands waken up by investors after fresh trademark filings.
  • The opposing party appealed to the Court of Cassation.

Fauré Le Page and Fauré Le Page Maroquinier have been ordered to pay to Goyard St-Honoré a penalty of 257,500.00 euros and a provisional penalty of 1,000.00 euros per violation of the prohibition pronounced by the Paris Court of Appeal on November 23, 2021, for a period of six months, after a period of two months following service of the judgment, as well as the sum of 44,895.60 euros under Article 700 Civil code.

#JamaisSansElles

Hachette Filipacchi Presse took legal action against our client for damage to reputation and infringement of the ELLE (women’s magazine) trademarks.

  • The Paris Regional Court ruled against #JamaisSansElles.
  • The Paris Court of Appeal dismissed all the plaintiff’s claims.
  • The opposing party appealed to the Court of Cassation in December 2022.

=> This dispute was that of fundamental freedoms, freedom of expression and association on the one hand, the right of ownership of a trademark holder on the other hand which is sanctioned when abusive.

Organigram

Team Services

Our lawyers act as advisers and litigators in all areas of industrial property law: patents, trademarks, designs, appellations of origin, geographical indications, copyright, in particular for applied arts and industrial products, etc.

We offer a comprehensive service in the field of trademarks and designs: prior art searches and analyses, national, Community and international filings, monitoring of opposition and cancellation proceedings, infringement and industrial property contract litigation, filings and monitoring of customs procedures, etc.

Our lawyers have expertise in proceedings before national, European and international patent offices and before the French and European courts.

In addition to our filing activities, we advise our clients on how to enhance the value of their intellectual property assets, by negotiating licence, research and development or assignment agreements, purchasing industrial property right portfolios and pledging the same rights.

– Drafting of licence and assignment agreements for industrial property rights;
– Support and monitoring of trademark and design applications.
– Management of French and international trademark portfolios;
– Cancellation proceedings before the EUIPO;
– Opposition proceedings before national and European offices;
– Negotiation of settlements;
– Infringement and/or unfair competition litigation;
– Trademark surveillance at national and European level, customs detentions
– Proceedings relating to patent issues (infringement / employee inventions, contractual litigation relating to the exploitation of patents).

The strength of our teams lies in their ability to combine knowledge of industrial property law with that of European law, going beyond mere European intellectual property law.

Awards and Recognition

IP STARS – 2024

Notable practitioner

WTR1000 - 2024 - Silver

Prosecution and strategy (individuals)

WTR1000 - 2024 - Silver

Enforcement and litigation (individuals)

Le Point - 2024