Industrial and Intellectual Property, Computers and the Internet
Industrial and intellectual property is one of the main components of a firm’s intangible assets. To protect innovation, creativity, know how, is vital for any firm, and not only for firms using a high level of technology.
Advice upstream
Audits
Drafting, negotiation and follow up of contracts
Disputes
Advice upstream
- protection of the innovation, technological know how & information on the firm
- new information and communication technologies within the firm, cybersurveillance and protection of employee privacy
- personal data protection, CNIL compliance
- protection of the creation, the work, copyright
- personal rights
- domain names
- e-commerce, electronic payment
- dematerialisation of procedures
- computerised specifications
Audits
- audit of current contracts
- audit of the disputes, frauds and sanctions suffered by the firm
- preventive audit of the practices of the main risk functions
- training of executives and managers; general sensitisation of the teams exposure
- audit of web sites
- audit of personal data bases and computer files
Drafting, negotiation and follow up of contracts
- licence for the right to utilise trademarks, patents, designs and models
- regulations for the joint ownership of patents and trademarks
- transfer of trademarks, patents, designs and models, copyright
- technology transfer
- contract for the communication of know how
- confidentiality agreements
- contracts for computer projects: licences, integration, facilities management, maintenance, hosting, outsourcing of information systems with assistance to personnel and reversibility measures
- employee inventions; employee copyright
- internal computer charters
- to work in collaboration
- publishing agreement
- contract for the writing of a radio broadcast
- infringement (patents, trademarks, designs and models, copyright, software): action for infringement, procedure for confiscation of work infringing copyright, judicial appraisal, protective measures
- unfair competition
- disputes relating to patent licences
- disputes relating to domain names
- computer claims
- civil liability action
- compliance with contractual liabilities and obligations
- mediation, arbitration and transactions
- criminal responsibility, cybercriminality
