Our teams have extensive experience in patent litigation in all technical fields.
Our firm is unique in France since, for each patent litigation we build a team comprising at least two partners, a patent lawyer and a patent attorney and depending on the case, one or several associates of the firm, enabling us to offer our clients high experience of all legal and technical aspects of court litigation.
Our experience, the teams of patent attorneys and attorneys at law and our significant knowledge of the relevant case law (French, international and before the European Patent Office) allows us to defend our client’s patent rights effectively, efficiently and successfully.
In France, we have since many years, an extremely effective and quick ex parte procedure (called “saisie-contrefaçon” or “infringement seizure”) allowing a bailiff, accompanied by a patent attorney representing the plaintiff, to inspect the premises of the alleged infringer make a detailed description of the alleged infringing products or methods and seize any document, sample, manufacturing schemes and drawings relating to the alleged infringement. During the same operation, accounting and commercial documents can also be seized to sustain a claim for damages. (for more information about the “saisie-contrefaçon" click here).
For such an infringement seizure:
We organize the handling of confidential information obtained during the seizure to safeguard confidentiality and avoid the risk of damages for violation of confidentiality.
Our combined prosecution and litigation experience, our extensive knowledge of the civil and criminal procedure, our knowledge of and access to sophisticated databases (French courts, ECJ, EPO) and our creative and pragmatic approach guarantees that our clients interests will be defended efficiently and successfully. (for more information about the Court procedure click here).
We coordinate litigations engaged before the courts of different European countries. In such a situation, we work with carefully chosen associate firms in the various countries of the European Union.
SAS Santen v/ INPI
BIOGARAN v/ MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORP. and al
BIOGARAN v/ GILEAD et al
Pfizer Limited & others v/ Biogaran, Sanofi & others
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