Intellectual Property

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

We operate in the main areas of intellectual property (trademarks, patents, designs, counterfeiting, unfair competition) and help our clients draw up the best strategy for protecting and enhancing the value of their intangible assets (technical innovations, applied art creations, distinctive signs, etc.).

Our areas of expertise

Trademark law
Patent law
Industrial design
Know-how, business secrets, trade secrets
Licensing, assignment and technology transfer agreements
Confidentiality and non-competition agreements
Advice and strategy for filing and protecting innovations
Implementation of rights management policies
Counterfeiting and unfair competition litigation
Business secrecy
Employee inventions

Our clients

French and foreign companies
Inventors

Partner in charge

Mathilde Croze

Bruno Martin

Our latest news

Lerins certified by EcoVadis

We are thrilled to announce that the firm has been awarded the bronze medal in its first evaluation by EcoVadis, a leading reference in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance assessment. What is EcoVadis? EcoVadis evaluates companies based on four key CSR criteria: environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement. This certification has become […]

Event | Law Associated Worldwide Regional Summit - Lisbon 2024

Our partners Mathilde Croze, Elsa Rodrigues and Laurent Bernet were in Lisbon on May 23rd & 24th for the Europe Africa & Middle East regional meeting of Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW), of which Lerins is the exclusive representative in France. Meeting and establishing links with our foreign colleagues is a priority for Lerins a firm […]

France 2: Artificial intelligence, the world of cinema threatened?

Mathilde Croze, partner, was interviewed this past Sunday in the “20h00” of France 2 on the subject “Artificial intelligence, the world of cinema threatened? “. In the report, she comments on the practice of AI body scans of cinema extras to create digital doubles and the legal vagueness maintained in contracts by production companies, as […]