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Charlotte MONTAUD: Industrial property attorney
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Isabelle MEUNIER-COEUR: Industrial property attorney, Plasseraud IP
INTRODUCTION
The field of application of intellectual property is both vast and heterogeneous: intellectual property concerns achievements as diverse as inventions, software, literary or artistic creations, databases, semiconductors, plant varieties, trademarks, designs and models... whose legal regimes differ widely, whether in terms of the nature, duration or effectiveness of protection, or the conditions and formalities to be fulfilled in order to benefit from it. A number of intellectual property rights can complement each other in protecting the same object. It is in a company's interest to be familiar with these different tools and to multiply the types of intellectual property protection in order to keep the competition at bay, reassure investors, make itself visible, enhance its image as an innovative company, generate partnerships with third parties and build up a wealth of various intangible assets.
Without claiming to be a specialist in intellectual property, it is important to be able to find one's way through this maze of rights in order to preserve or optimize the protection of one's innovations and intellectual assets.
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Bibliography
Propriété intellectuelle : faits et chiffres de l'OMPI 2016 Author : OMPI | Year of publication : 2016
Regulations
Authors
Sheet initially drafted by Laurence Tellier Loniewski, lawyer, and Virginie Brunot, lawyer at the Paris Bar, graduate of CEIPI patents, trademarks, designs and models, Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats – first publication: 2017
Websites
Institut national de la propriété industrielle (INPI)
A self-financed public institution under the supervision of the French Ministry of Industrial Property, INPI plays an active role in the development and implementation of public policies in the field of intellectual property, in support of innovation and business competitiveness, and in the fight against...
Glossary (in French law)
Invention patents
Industrial property title issued by the Director of the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle which confers on its holder or his successors in title an exclusive right to use a patentable invention that is new, has an inventive step and is capable of industrial application.
Patent law is governed by Book VI of the French Intellectual...
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