PROTECT

MARCHAIS & Associés assists you in the optimized protection and management of your portfolio worldwide and especially of your trademarks and registered designs by :

• Proceeding to availability/clearance searches in order to check the availability of the chosen mark or the novelty of the proposed registered design.

• Defining with you a protection strategy that will suit your needs and budget.

• Filing your trademarks and registered designs and following up the proceedings until their registration :
– In France
– With EUIPO (European trademarks and European registered designs)
– With WIPO (International trademarks and International designs)
– Abroad in partnership with its network of reliable foreign associates.

• Operating all formalities relating to your rights with national offices (recordals, renewals, withdrawals)

• Drafting your IP related contracts (among others license and assignment deeds relating to trademarks/registered design/domain names) and by proceeding to their recordals with the corresponding national offices.

• Performing audits and proceeding to due diligence in order to estimate the value of your assets or of those that you contemplate purchasing.