France

Firm overview

IP practitioners with technical expertise.

Our international team of patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law know how to successfully enforce your industrial property claims. We scrupulously and tenaciously get to the bottom of matters, breaking complex cases down in a clear and comprehensible manner, while continuing to bear our clients’ goals in mind. That’s how we find crucial, convincing arguments. And we do so with passion and a fighting spirit — this is our key to success.

Our professional expertise is also highly regarded among German and international professional organizations, at international conventions, and as consultants for the German Federal Government and for patent and trademark offices.

Competency in all fields of IP law combined with sector-specific knowledge

We offer expertise in all areas of industrial property law. Our extensive experience covers an extremely wide range of sectors from telecommunications, electrical engineering and electronics, mechanical engineering, medical technology, chemistry, software and semiconductor technology through to sport, food and fashion.

Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.

Firm overview

TMark Conseils specializes in European and French intellectual property law and is a member of the French National Association of IP Attorneys (CNCPI). The firm was founded in 1993 on the shared belief in focusing on meeting the client’s special needs and expectations. Today, Tmark Conseils team of 25 members of staff and 5 partners are all committed to delivering first-class services that are tailored to each client’s particular requirements, budgets and timelines regardless of whether the client is a large multinational company a medium size operator, a start-up or an individual business person.

Areas of Expertise

• IP strategy definition and development
• Filing and prosecution of trade mark, design, domain names applications, renewals
• Trademark oppositions before INPI, EUIPO (and internationally), UDRP proceedings
• Drafting and negotiating IP agreements (assignment, license, coexistence…)
• Enforcement and protection of IP rights
• IP Cross boarder litigations
• Brand protection (Customs watch and judicial proceedings) 
• Audit, due diligence and assessment of portfolios of all types of IP rights.

International IP Networks and Experience
Tmark Conseils works both in France, before EUIPO and internationally. Tmark Conseils closely collaborates with a worldwide network of IP firms chosen because of their high level of expertise, responsiveness, cost efficiency services and involvement. Tmark Conseils is very active in cross boarder IP litigations.

Guidance, Support and Clearance
Tmark Conseils staff accompanies their clients in order to fully protect their IP rights at the national, European and international levels.

Tmark Conseils identifies and defines all available and appropriate strategies and solutions while being mindful of the client’s special interests and advises on protective measures and actions available both nationally at the European level and worldwide tailored to meet the technical, commercial and financial aspects and issues at hand.

The firm’s specific knowledge of procedural and administrative aspects of all IP-related matters in particular at the EUIPO level allows Tmark Conseils’s team of experts to deliver high-end support both in securing, maintaining and exploiting the client’s rights and setting up defensive arguments.

Network Memberships: INTA, ECTA, APRAM, CEIPI

Firm overview

Plasseraud IP is the leading group of intellectual property attorneys in France and a leader in Europe.  Its leading position in the French market was consolidated by the merger, in November 2018, with EGYP, a highly reputed IP firm, particularly in the Biotech, Mechanical and Trademark domains.

It brings together more than 350 professionals, including 150 Patent and Trademark Attorneys (CPI), lawyers and engineers, including experts in mechanics, electronics, IT, biology and pharmaceuticals. In order to protect and enhance the value of intellectual property assets and to assist its clients in all issues relating to patents and trademarks, the group also includes experts in contract law, digital and personal data law, consultants acting in anti-counterfeiting seizures and lawyers.

Plasseraud IP supports international groups, mid-cap companies, SMEs, research organizations, public institutions, local authorities, start-ups and business leaders in their innovation projects, to protect their inventions, promote their ideas and defend their rights.

The group has offices in 9 French cities (Paris, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Angoulême, Grenoble, Rennes, Strasbourg) and 5 international locations (Shanghai, Prague, Madrid, Alicante and Munich). Our Attorneys are qualified in several jurisdictions including France, UK, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Japan, China, Korea, Colombia, USA, and Canada.