Responsible of the department: Emmanuel Gougé - Contact: +33 (0) 1 53 53 02 80
Marccus Partners offers a wide range of legal services in all fields related to intellectual property law (patents, trademarks, designs, copyright, domain names and other distinctive signs), as well as to information and telecommunication technologies law, competition law and advertising law.
Our lawyers advise and assist French and foreign clients involved in the main sectors of activity (food industry, automobile industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, energy, high technology, advertisement of credit institutions ...) to protect and defend their rights in France, as well as abroad.
The IP / IT team provides its clients with its know-how at every stage of their legal matters, whether in legal counseling or in litigation, by:
- Implementing strategies for the protection of intangible assets;
- Providing legal opinions;
- Negotiating and settling conflicts amicably;
- Auditing companies' intangible assets portfolio and carrying due diligence;
- Drafting contracts/agreements (technology transfer, IT contract, license, assignment, coexistence agreement, confidentiality agreement, commercial agent, franchise…)
- Providing pre-litigation and litigation legal advices (invalidity action, patent claim, infringement seizure, interlocutory injunction);
- Arbitration.
Our lawyers regularly assist their clients in cross-border litigations, before courts of various European states, involving national and European laws.
Marccus Partners is involved in every step of these proceedings (concurrent proceedings, related action, recognition and enforcement in France of a judgment held in another Member State, enforcement of a decision held by the French courts in another Member State…).
Marccus Partners intervenes mainly in patent litigation proceedings. Furthermore, our lawyers have acquired a significant experience in the mechanical, electrical and computer industries as well as in the chemistry and life sciences.
Marccus Partners assists its clients with respect to works made for hire/employee inventions and also intervenes in the relations between public research and industry.
When dealing with acquisition procedures, Marccus Partners provides its clients its expertise in due diligence related to all areas of intellectual property law.
On behalf of their clients, our lawyers also negotiate and write patent licenses or assignment contracts. Moreover, our team has acquired a significant expertise as regards to the drafting of research and development (R&D) contracts, technical cooperation and technology transfer contracts.
Trademarks - Designs -Top-
Drawing on its extensive experience in trademarks and other distinctive signs (business name, brand and trade name, commercial name, domain name, designation of origin) as well as in designs, our lawyers provide their expertise to their clients who wish to enhance and to enforce their distinctive signs at a national, European and worldwide level.
Copyright -Top-
Marccus Partners provides its know-how to its clients who wish to enhance, protect and enforce their rights in issues, whether contractual or litigious, related to copyright and to its various aspects such as software, literary and artistic works.
Our team intervenes in highly varied sectors of activity such as software developments, design and industrial creation, photography, interior architecture, urban designs, fashion accessories and furniture.
Advertising law -Top-
Marccus Partners intervenes in legal consulting (validation of advertising campaigns with respect to applicable specific regulations and to intellectual property law, legal opinions, negotiation, contracts) and in civil and criminal litigation (misleading and comparative advertisements…) for advertising agencies as well as for advertisers.
Information and Technology / Telecommunication and Internet -Top-
Our dedicated team assists its clients in all of their projects linked to new technologies, in particular by:
- Drafting and negotiating of specific agreements, in particular system integration and migration contracts, outsourcing, data storage contracts, OEM contracts, maintenance contracts;
- Providing assistance in the development and determination of corporate security policies, through the implementation of IT charters, confidentiality agreements, and the compliance analysis with the French data protection legislation (CNIL statements, data protection correspondents…);
- Dealing with the issues raised by electronic communications and service providers, in particularly regarding the liability of Internet operators;
- Managing IT matters in their litigious and non-litigious aspects.
Competition - Distribution -Top-
Our lawyers provide legal advices with regard to unfair competition as well as in various aspects of competition law, in connection with technology transfers and intellectual property matters such as:
- Imitation of products and/or packaging and other elements pertaining to the identification of companies;
- Disparagement and discriminatory practice;
- Cartels and abuses of a dominant position
- Distribution law issues.
