JOBARD, CHEMLA & ASSOCIÉS advises a wide range of companies in the area of intellectual property rights.

We assist our clients in protecting their intellectual property, as well as acquiring and safeguarding intellectual property rights.

We provide support to our clients when negotiating acquisitions, assignments, or mergers, and assist them in all types of legal disputes as well as in arbitration and mediation procedures.

We assist our clients in the following categories of Intellectual Property:

• Trademark law (French, European, and International), domain names and other commercial designations
• Copyright law, Database law, IT law, Patent law, and Drawings & Design law
• Know-how and trade secrets
• Advertising law
• Negotiating and drafting licensing agreements, assignment, and technology-transfer agreements
• Non-disclosure and non-competition agreements
• Advice and strategy for registering and protecting innovations, establishing rights management policies, and in-house IPR auditing
• Litigating infringement or unfair competition claims whether in domestic courts or before alternative dispute resolution bodies.

A few recent examples:

• We defended the interests of a major pharmaceutical laboratory in a copyright infringement claim.
• We negotiated trademark and know-how licenses attached to a Manufacturing and Marketing Agreement for laboratory equipment.
• We conducted proceedings before the WIPO Mediation Center to recover a trademark and a domain name.
• We were successful in an appeal against a decision by the Director-General of France's National Institute of Intellectual Property (INPI), refusing to allow the filing of a Thai trademark registration application in the food industry.

Our Firm can call upon a worldwide network of trademark and patent agents, enabling us to provide full service to our clients, and in particular facilitating the registration and protection of intellectual property rights abroad.

Attorneys experienced in Intellectual Property Law include:

• Pierre-Emmanuel JOBARD
• Mathilde CROZE
• Arnaud PICARD

• COMPUTER LAW - NICT - TELECOMS
• EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
• MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS - CORPORATE LAW