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What is the difference between an IP lawyer and an IP counselor?
A lawyer is a legal professional registered with a Bar Association established at each Court of Justice.
He informs his clients of their rights and obligations, of the steps and procedures, advises them, assists them and represents their interests in court.
Lawyers may take specialty certificates, including the following in connection with intellectual property (a branch of business law):
- Intellectual property law, which covers the following areas of specialization:
- Litigation of the counterfeit;
- Audiovisual communication and cinema law;
- Industrial property law (designs, trademarks, patents – patent law requires expertise, etc.);
- Literary and artistic property law (copyright, intellectual property, databases, etc.);
- Litigation relating to domain names;
- Litigation relating to image rights.
- Digital law (new technologies) and communications:
- Advertising law;
- Telecommunications law.
Vanessa Bouchara has a double specialization in Intellectual Property Law and Digital and Communication Law.
It is essential for any company or individual to turn to lawyers specializing in intellectual property and digital technology who are fully aware of the issues will put their skills at your service and will be able to provide you with a detailed legal expertise and advice adapted to your needs, taking into account their experience in the field.
A lawyer specializing in intellectual property law will guide you and will be able to assist you in both advice and litigation, in particular
- Within the framework of intellectual property registration procedures in France (INPI) and abroad (EUIPO, WIPO etc…), through a network of local correspondents in order to obtain an exclusive right on your creations and thus a monopoly of exploitation in your strategic countries ;
- In the context of establishing a filing strategy ;
- As part of the monitoring of intellectual property assets and the fight against counterfeiting;
- Within the framework of the implementation of actions and contentious, administrative and judicial procedures (formal notices, oppositions, actions for nullity, actions for revocation, actions for claims, etc.);
- For the negotiation and conclusion of contracts (coexistence agreements, assignment agreements, license agreements).
For its part, the Industrial Property Attorney (IPO) assists its clients in the context of filings and all administrative procedures before the Trademark Offices only.
An Industrial Property Attorney may not represent one of his clients before the Courts in the event of a legal dispute.
Article L.422-1 of the Intellectual Property Code provides that “The profession of an industrial property attorney is to offer, on a regular and remunerated basis, his services to the public in order to advise, assist or represent third parties with a view to obtaining, maintaining, exploiting or defending industrial property rights, ancillary rights and rights relating to all related matters.
Our team of lawyers practices in the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal.
We are also external Data Protection Officer for many processors and subcontractors and have expertise in the protection, processing and transfer of personal data ( GDPR compliance, drafting of data protection policies etc.).
The Bouchara Law firm assists you in particular in :
- Protection and optimization of your intellectual property assets ;
- The search for prior art prior to any filing of trademark;
- The filing of your trademarks (including the drafting of the wording of your goods(s) and/or service(s) classes) and your designs before the Intellectual Property Offices (INPI, EUIPO, WIPO etc…);
- The response to the notification of irregularity before the Intellectual Property Offices if applicable;
- Strategies for protecting your intellectual property assets (trademarks, designs, copyrights);
- Proceedings before the Intellectual Property Offices and before the Courts (in particular opposition proceedings, nullity actions, seizure of goods, infringement actions, unfair competition actions, etc.)
- Negotiation and drafting of intellectual property contracts (assignment contract, license contract, exploitation contract, computer contract, etc.);
- Procedures for domain names (UDRP, SYRELI);
- Litigation relating to databases;
- And more generally, the protection, defense and management of your intellectual property portfolios.
