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Use your trademark to avoid the risk of revocation and keep proof of it A Trademark allows to obtain a monopoly of exploitation on a sign in connection with the goods or services referred to in the application for registration. However, it is a living legal title, linked to commercial development over time and whose force and enforceability weaken if it is not or no longer used for all or part of the protected goods and services. In France and in most European countries, the absolute protection ends 5 years after the registration of the trademark.   The legal news […]

From December 2020 to September 2022, after months of investigation, French Customs initiated and coordinated one of the largest operations ever conducted at the European level against counterfeiting sold on the Internet, in coordination with Europol, DNRED (National Direction of Intelligence and Customs Investigations) and the German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech and British law enforcement agencies. Result: This operation allowed the seizure or blocking, in these 7 countries, of 16.7 million counterfeit products, mainly toys, and mostly coming from China. Hundreds of thousands of online buyers have been – most of the time – deceived by the advertisements of these […]

As part of its program of “Intellectual Property” mornings, the INPI delegation in Lyon, in partnership with the Compagnie des Conseils en Propriété Industrielle (CNCPI) and the Lyon Bar, organized a training session dedicated to the operation of the so-called “IP Box” regime, a tax system favorable to the exploitation of industrial property assets resulting from a company’s R&D work. A more precise focus was planned on its application to original software, a new feature of the 2019 finance law that has been somewhat overlooked until now. Entirely dematerialized from Lyon, this conference on the IP Box and its consequences […]

Alan Jay PERLIS, a computer specialist, stated in 1982 that “in man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.“. This statement is particularly true today. Indeed, with the development of artificial intelligence, the latter is now capable of generating creations in an almost autonomous way in many fields. We can therefore legitimately ask ourselves whether these creations are eligible to protection by copyright. However, in the current state of copyright law and doctrine, the creator is necessarily a physical person, and this despite the fact that this rule is not expressly stated in the legal texts. Indeed, […]