In the domain of intellectual property, the team of lawyers who make up this practice area help you identify, protect and valorize your intangible assets (trademarks, copyrights, drawings and models, databases, software or programs, static or animated images, websites, and more generally, all protected or protectable creations). This allows us to advise you and accompany you in all actions allowing you to capitalize on the intangible assets of your company (creations, innovations).

Thus, in the area of trademarks, we help our clients validate the existence of intangible assets, ensure an efficient protection thereof, and implement the monitoring and defense strategy of the said assets until completion of their economic appreciation (exploitation, license, transfer) in the context of a patrimonial initiative.

From priority research to the management of trademark portfolios, including the indispensable monitoring process destined to protect efficiently a trademark and the notification of any eventual oppositions, we are organized to best protect the interests of our clients.

The practice group also has expertise in the sector of advanced technology, notably in information technology, internet, healthcare technology, biotechnology, energy, the environment and electronic communications.

The law is reflected upon as a service tool for companies’ projects, public services and any other organization.

We systematically incorporate insurance law in our interventions and apply the same principle to financial matters, such as damages assessment on the issue of which we work in close cooperation with our clients and any eventual outside counsels specializing in this area.

Hence we endeavour, in handling the different cases that are referred to us, to accord the different perspectives, whether legal, technological or financial so as to provide efficient and fully operational solutions. As an illustration, the issue of Research Tax credit is at crossroads between tax law and computer law.

We strongly believe in the virtues of legal conformity audits intended to enhance the companies economic appreciation as well as the decision-making power of their leaders. As an example, Bignon Lebray & Associés is regularly appointed as external Privacy and Data Protection Correspondent for its clients. On this particular point and other issues (which require an audit, an inventory of fixtures, the identification of a legal referential and targeted recommendations), we have perfected a specific and dedicated methodology, which we are in the process of automating so as to take into account of the budgetary constraints of our clients.

In any event, and this is one of the strengths of our law firm, our team works in close cooperation with the other teams of lawyers and advisers within our offices, located in France and abroad. Hence we advise our clients as to any project involving information technology, including their investments and management of their intellectual property assets in relation to any activities performed overseas, particularly in China through our Shanghai office.