CMS Francis Lefebvre handles a busy workload, including infringement and revocation actions, as well as advice on R&D contracts, licensing, and portfolio audits, combining patent expertise with capabilities in regulatory and tax aspects. Important team members include Jean-Baptiste Thiénot, who excels at the intersection of contentious patent issues and life sciences regulation and offers niche expertise in and employee inventiontopics.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Collaborative teamwork.'
- ‘A team made up of high-quality professionals, attentive to clients and creative.’
- ‘Jean-Baptiste Thiénot is a very good adviser, who is attentive to his clients and offers varied solutions to achieve the desired objective.’
Key clients
- Leifheit
- E-Diagmed
- Trilogiq
- Amosan Distribution – Amosan Petrochemicals – Green Source
Work highlights
Advising an industrial group (Amosan – Green Source) on entering a tightly controlled automotive parts market, facing pressure from a competitor, including securing a win with the Court rejecting a preliminary injunction.
Defended Trilogiq in a patent infringement case against its main competitor, Geolean and secured a win upheld on appeal, along with damages, a permanent injunction, and product destruction.
Represented Leifheit in a patent infringement action which led to a settlement through an innovative procedural path.
Other key lawyers
Jean-Baptiste Thiénot; Anne-Laure Villedieu; Florentin Sanson; Sabine Rigaud