Expertise

• EL-AUD Audit Every business creates and innovates. The intangible estate still has to be identified and protected. We run a diagnosis tied to the activity, the objectives and the strategy — commercial, marketing, financial, and intellectual property where it belongs.
• EL-ANT Prior-right search To obtain protection at OAPI, the subject-matter must be available. We search from the simplest form (identical) to the most elaborate (similarity).
• EL-DEP Filing and follow-up Steps before OAPI require command of procedure and of the legislation. As an accredited attorney we handle acquisition, follow-up and maintenance in force.
• EL-VEI Watch The title confers an exclusive right to work the subject-matter. To keep it, we run a competitive and a defensive watch — Official Gazette, later filings, infringing use.
• EL-CTR Advice & contracts Choosing how to appropriate an intellectual asset; negotiating and drafting: confidentiality, coexistence, assignment, licence. Including artists’ contracts, too often left oral.
• EL-CTX Litigation Validity, infringement or unfair competition: we defend clients before OAPI’s administrative bodies and before the courts of the 17 member States, with counsel where the matter so requires.

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