Interview: INSCRIPTA, new horizons

Interviewed by Décideurs Magazine, Agnès DOYEN et Manuel ROCHE explain their practice and share their vision of IP counsel and IP in general. In 2016, [INSCRIPTA] focused on improving clients’ satisfaction and quality, and on developing new business associations...

Wrong ideas about trademarks

My trademark registration automatically blocks any later trademark application. Wrong! A French trademark or a EU trademark does not automatically block subsequent identical or very similar trademark applications. When a trademark is registered, trademark offices such...

Valentine’s day flowers

A few months ago, we commented the judgment of the Court of First instance of Paris of 29 January 2016 which denied copyright protection to promotional pictures of flowers published on an e-commerce web site because of their lack of originality (here). Before the...