trademarks

INSCRIPTA protects your brands and
trademarks all over the world.

Before filing your trademark application

• Selecting the sign: name, logo, slogan, etc.
• Defining the relevant country or countries.
• Preliminary analysis with regard to registrability of the sign.
• Availability searches.
• Seniority searches.

Applying for and registering your trademark

• Identification and drafting of the list of goods and services.
• Filing of trademark application before Patent and Trademark Offices (INPI for French trademarks, EUIPO for European Union trademarks, WIPO for International registrations, foreign PTOs).
• Following-up of registration procedures in France and abroad.
• Reporting and responding to office actions.
• Reporting and responding to oppositions.
• Verifying official documents.

In addition to trademark registration

• Docketing your trademark and official documents into our database.
• Monitoring upcoming official deadlines and renewals.
• Managing and optimizing your trademarks portfolio.

After your trademark is registered

• Monitoring and watch services.
• Opposition procedures against third parties’ trademarks.
• Registering change of name, change of legal form or change of address of the owner.
• Infringement opinions.
• Competitive intelligence.
• Due diligence.
• Registering your trademarks with customs services.
• Cancellation or revocation actions.
• Amicable and judicial disputes.
• Drafting contracts and agreements.
• Legal consultations and opinions.
• Audits.
• Assessment of trademark portfolios.
• Financial evaluation of trademarks.
• Licence agreements and trademark assignments.
• Registering of transfer of ownership.
• Registering of licence agreements.
• IP training or courses.

A few examples of what we do

• Drafting and filing trademark applications in the following fields: aeronautics | accounting | advertising | agricultural machinery | audiovisual media | automation | automotive | banking | business consultancy | car-sharing | chemistry | civil engineering | clothing | communications | construction materials | cooking | cosmetics | credit | design | distribution | ecology | e-commerce | education | electricity | electronics | energy | engineering | entertainment | finance | food industry | furniture | hardware | healthcare | home automation | hotels | household appliances | information technologies | insurance | jewellery | law | leather goods | logistics | management | manufacturing processes | mechanics | mechatronics | medical and surgical equipment | music | nanoparticles | nuclear industry | office equipment | optics | organization of events | packaging | pastry | perfumes | pharmacy | physics | plumbing | printing | public works | publishing | real estate | restaurants | robotics | sanitary installations | security | software | sports | surgery | telecommunications | thermal engineering | trade | transportation | travel organization | underground exploration | watch making | water treatment | well-being | wind energy | wine | etc.
• Protection and trademark watch services for an international group of companies in the field of aeronautics.
• Financial evaluation of trademarks in the automobile industry.
• Defining new strategies for trademarks of an insurance company.
• Defending a famous nightclub’s trademark against infringement.
• Due diligence in preparation for a transfer of trademarks and designs in the field of aeronautics.
• Defending a trademark infringement and unfair competition action in the field of agricultural machines.
• Availability searches for a new perfumes franchise.
• Due diligence and acquisition of trademarks in the context of a liquidation.
• IP training of employees in terms of communications and online protection of trademarks.
• Financial evaluation of a trademark in the food industry before the creation of a franchise.
• Defending a wine trademark and trade name against misappropriation.
• Drafting EU-wide legal strategy of trademark infringement actions in the automobile sector.
• Defending of an e-commerce trademark against revocation for non-use.
• Conversion of a EU trademark into national trademarks in the entertainment field.
• Managing trademarks of a franchisor in the furniture business.
• Filing a revocation action against an International trademark registration for hotels.
• Claiming ownership of a trademark in the field of industrial packaging.
• Defending a patent and a trademark related to a mobile application.
• Availability searches and seniority clearance for a car-sharing trademark.
• Defending a company’s trademark against misappropriation by a business associate.
• Freedom to operate (FTO) related to trademarks and designs in the food industry.
• Defending an insurance company in an opposition case before the French PTO and before the court of appeals.
• Filing a revocation action for non-use against a trademark for furniture.
• Drafting a joint-ownership agreement of patents, know-how and trademarks.
• Drafting a trademark licence agreement between a company and its founder.
• Conducting a cancellation action against a European trademark registration.
• Fighting against online infringement and fake goods in the food industry.
• Drafting and sending cease and desist letters against infringers in the energy sector.