Intellectual property lawyer

Whether you are a company or an individual, the firm can advise you on protecting your creations and ensuring that your rights are recognised.

What creations are protected by intellectual property?

The firm provides legal advice to its clients and assists them in developing their business.

Patents

As an innovative company, the firm is there to help you promote your creation and your technical know-how. Our lawyers specializing in intellectual property and business law in Paris will provide you with legal advice throughout the life of your patent:

• Drafting the patent, a technical and legal document;
• INPI procedures: filing the patent, establishing the originality of the invention and/or technique, responding to INPI observations;
• Litigation concerning the validity or infringement of your patented know-how.

If a patent is infringed, a legal strategy is needed to ensure that it is effectively protected once again. The firm will support you in this process and represent you during amicable dispute resolution and arbitration. If necessary, the firm will represent you in litigation before the relevant courts.

Distinctive signs of intellectual property: brands, designs, and models

In the face of growing commercial competition, standing out from the crowd has become a major challenge. Domain names, trademarks, and distinctive signs are all intellectual property assets that need to be developed and preserved to grow your business.

Our intellectual property lawyers, who also have expertise in company law, ensure that these intangible assets are integrated into your overall strategy, whether you are setting up a company, raising funds, or selling shares.

In the event of infringement, use of your distinctive signs, or parasitism, recourse to a lawyer is often a decisive alternative in resolving the conflict.

A brand is the face of a company. It ensures the company’s reputation and bears witness to its know-how. The firm’s expertise in intellectual property gives it the legitimacy to advise you on the creation and monitoring of your trademark:

• Identifying the products and services covered by the trademark application;
• Checking the availability of the trademark and identifying any risks of confusion;
• Filing the trademark and responding to objections from the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle).

The misleading use of a trademark by others amounts to taking credit for a company. Such use also represents a risk of damaging the company’s reputation. It is therefore important to put a stop to any infringement of a registered trademark.

The use of your distinctive signs or parasitism is a practice that constitutes unfair competition. They can be highly damaging and threaten the development of your business.

Calling on the services of a lawyer is the best way to implement an appropriate strategy. The lawyers at Cabinet Goldwin are able to support you throughout your amicable or contentious procedures. From expert appraisals of your intangible assets to representation before the relevant courts, Cabinet Goldwin provides you with expert support.

Domain names

If a brand is the recognition element of a company, the website is its showcase.

Today, the website is a central element of a communication and marketing strategy. As such, it must be legally protected against any malicious act.

The firm assists its customers with the following:

• Find an original, easily identifiable domain name that complies with legal and regulatory requirements;
• Reserve the domain name;
• Protecting it.

While reserving a domain name is based on a “first-come, first-served” basis, it does not mean that the domain name is legally protected. Indeed, the website may be the target of abuse by cybersquatters or competitors.

All it takes is a slight change to your URL address for a malicious person to take credit for your work. In such cases, action for unfair competition appears to be the only solution. It is advisable to contact a lawyer specialising in intellectual property law as soon as possible. He or she will be able to adopt an appropriate strategy and put a stop to the practice as quickly as possible. The firm’s expertise in digital law and new technologies makes it a benchmark in the protection of your domain name.

What creations are protected by intellectual property, literary property and artistic property?

Copyright

Technological innovation has made it possible to rapidly develop the means of distributing content, but it is becoming increasingly easy to usurp the origin of an original work and claim the rights to it.

Nevertheless, legislation is struggling to keep pace with the emergence of these new means of dissemination due to its incomplete and confused nature.

Whether graphic works or works of the mind, these intellectual property assets require effective copyright protection. To achieve this, the assistance of a lawyer is essential.

With its expertise in digital law and new technologies, the firm is at the forefront of copyright protection. Its expertise gives it the legitimacy to resolve disputes quickly. Finally, the firm is able to anticipate legislative developments in this ever-changing field, so as to protect your interests as effectively as possible.

Website protection

Whether it is a company’s shop window or a means of sharing its creations, a website is not just a simple digital construction. It is also an intellectual work, a true creation from the imagination of an individual.

As such, a website qualifies as a collective multimedia work and requires special data protection. Not only must the copyright of its creator be recognised, but its elements (presentation, software used to design it, source code) must also be protected against any act of counterfeiting.

In the event of partial or total reproduction of one of these elements, a lawyer can quickly resolve the conflict and put an end to the infringement of your interests. The Goldwin law firm will support you in your efforts and represent you before the relevant authorities.

The firm’s lawyers support and advise companies and individuals in their pre-litigation or litigation actions for amicable recovery.