Taylor Wessing elevates its trade marks and designs practice through integrated international coordination, delivering strategic enforcement and portfolio advisory across luxury, tech, and media sectors. The team excels in infringement disputes and unfair competition claims, leveraging cross-border networks for seamless validity assessments. Trade marks litigator Marc Schuler, adept in brands protection and licensing, leads the group, and Inès Tribouillet bolsters contentious proceedings.
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Key clients
- Orange
- Banijay Group (Zodiak Media)
- Tik Tok
- Balenciaga
- NcSoft / ArenaNet
- Adobe
- American Airlines
- Maison Lejaby
- Comcast
- Ratp
- Corsearch
- Gallup
Work highlights
Representing Alexander Mcqueen brand in a litigation initiated by Margiela based on freeriding in relation to the use of an alleged infringement of its 4 stitches design.
Assisting Gallup in a major non-use action initiated by the GIA in the view of obtaining cancelation of its trade marks in France. The action is mostly based on use of Gallup as a company name and not a trade mark.
Providing strategic opinion of opposition proceedings against similar marks that could potentially infringe across their product range including ECHO, ASTRO, BLINK, GAMEON, TITAN, and others.
Practice head
Marc Schuler
Other key lawyers
Inès Tribouillet