Caroline Casalonga

Caroline CASALONGA is Managing Partner of CASALONGA AVOCATS. She is specialized in patents, trademarks and other IP rights litigations. She has about 20 years experience in all intellectual property fields from counsel to litigation. She commenced her career with Paul Mathely, and then joined Pennie & Edmonds in New York City prior to practising with CASALONGA.

She advises large French and International companies for protecting and defending their Intellectual Property rights in different sectors including electronics, automobile equipment, pharmaceutical goods, and consumer products.

She is recognized as one of the French leaders in Intellectual Property and is cited by the European Legal Experts Magazine and the Legal 500.

She regularly participates as speaker in national and international conferences.

Education

 Paris Bar
 European Trademark Attorney
 Former French Trademark Attorney
 LL.M. Cornell University
 Master (DEA) in Intellectual Property, University of Paris II (1992)
 Master in Law, University of Paris II (1988-1991)

Publications and presentations

 Article on anti-counterfeiting in France and the EU (Trademark Review Anti-Counterfeiting 2008, 2009 and 2010)
 IPIC annual Meeting 2009 : conference on Community Trademark and anti-counterfeiting
 Co-author French chapter Trademark Practice and Forms Oceana, New-York, November 2009
 Active participation to the AIPPI Working Committee on question 208 on border measures and other measures of customs intervention against infringers
 Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH - Zurich): January 2006, course on European copyright (Master in IP)
 Cannes Festival, May 2003, conference on Internet piracy
 AIPPI Tokyo/New York State Bar Association New York: March 2002, conference on registered Community Designs
 Practicing Law Institute New York, October 2002, Conference comparing the International trademark and the CTM trademark
 APRAM, December 2002: conference on the Community Trademark Opposition Procedure
 INTA, May 2002: conference on the Community Trademark and the International Trademark
 Strategies, April 2002: Article on the Community Trademark
 World Trademark Law Report: Numerous articles on French and Community trademark law

Professional organisations

 International Trademark Association (INTA)
 International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
 French Association of Practitioners of Design and Trademark Law (APRAM)
 European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
 Licensing Executive Society France (LES France)
 IPSKI

Languages

French - English – German