Here you will find a selection of decisions from French and European courts, authorities, and offices. Various teams at CASALONGA were involved in some of the cases handled. Other cases are mentioned here due to their particular importance
Bal du Moulin Rouge was represented by Pascaline Vincent, attorney-at-law at the Toulouse Bar.
In opposition proceedings before the French Intellectual Property Office (INPI), the BNIC successfully obtained recognition that the use of the term “GNAC” constitutes an unlawful evocation of the protected geographical indication (GI) COGNAC, both in relation to similar products (COGNAC v. TI’GNAC) and dissimilar products and services (COGNAC c. APERO’GNAC).
The Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac (BNIC) was represented by Caroline Casalonga, Attorney at Law at the Paris Bar.
Very important victory for our client Syngenta, a leading crop protection company, in a landmark decision on file inspection applications before the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court.
Syngenta was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Benjamin Grzimek and Jörn Peters, German attorneys-at-law.
Jieyang Defa Industry Co. Ltd was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Floriane Codevelle, assisted by Elsa Trombitas, attorneys-at-law at the Paris Bar.
La société Spéciales Gillardeau was represented by Caroline Casalonga, Attorney at Law at the Paris Bar.
Alors que l’offre de boissons sans ou à faible teneur en alcool (NO/LOW) ne cesse d’augmenter et s’inspire toujours davantage des codes des boissons alcoolisées, la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne apporte une clarification bienvenue :
une boisson sans alcool ne peut pas être vendue sous le nom d’une catégorie de spiritueux !
Monster Energy Company was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte, Attorney at Law at the Paris and New York Bars, assisted by Klervi Henry, Attorney at Law at the Paris and Montreal Bars, in an appeal before the French Supreme Court.
Successful decision for Sanofi before the EUIPO. The Board of Appeal confirmed a likelihood of confusion between EUTM Applications BCOVAXIN (word mark) and COVAXIN BHARAT BIOTECH (figurative mark) and Prior EUTM Registration COVAXIS for vaccines and recognized the genuine use of Sanofi’s prior EUTM Registration based on evidence of use provided for Germany (appeal deadline not yet expired).
Sanofi was represented by Cristina Bercial-Chaumier, Attorney at Law at the Alicante Bar, Agente de la Propiedad Industrial (Spanish Patent & Trademark Attorney) and European Trademark and Design Attorney.
Bal du Moulin Rouge was represented by Pascaline Vincent, attorney-at-law at the Toulouse Bar.
Leroy Merlin was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Arnaud Casalonga, assisted by Juliette Dionisi, attorneys-at-law at the Paris Bar.
Representation of Biogaran against the MSD/Organon companies in PI proceedings relating to the French SPC protecting the combination of Ezetimibe and Simvastatin, resulting in the final invalidation of the SPC and the final dismissal of MSD/Organon’s application for a preliminary injunction following its withdrawal before the French Supreme Court.
Biogaran was represented by Marianne Gabriel attorney-at-law at the Paris Bar.
Successful representation of 4G standard-essential patent owner against various car manufacturers in seven infringement litigations before the Munich and Mannheim Regional Courts and the UPC (The Hague Local Division); all cases settled favourably at an early stage in the course of 2025.
Sol IP was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Benjamin Grzimek and Jörn Peters, German attorneys-at-law.
Spotify AB was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Karina Dimidjian-Lecomte, Attorney at Law at the Paris and New York Bars, assisted by Klervi Henry, Attorney at Law at the Paris and Montreal Bars, and Elsa Trombitas, Attorney at Law at the Paris Bar in three successful oppositions before the French IPO:
Successful defense of Biogaran against Bayer in infringement proceedings based on claim 12 of patent EP 2 305 255, covering a compound for the treatment of cancer, in which the Paris Court of first instance held that this claim, as limited during the proceedings, was invalid due to added matter and dismissed all infringement claims (appeal pending).
BIOGARAN was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Marianne Gabriel, attorney-at-law at the Paris Bar, and Jean-Baptiste Lecoeur, attorney-at-law at the Paris Bar and european patent attorney.
Rio Tinto Alcan International Limited was represented by the CASALONGA team, composed of Gwennhaël Le Roy and Thomas Boucheteau, patent attorneys, in an opposition filed before the European Patent Office (EPO).
Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the Institut national de l’origine et de la qualité (INAO) were represented by Caroline Casalonga, Attorney at Law at the Paris Bar.
Very interesting decision on the question of prescription of a geographic indication infringement action:
⦁ Geographic indication actions are prescribed by 5 years from the date the plaintiff had knowledge of the infringing acts in the relevant territory (France and the EU),
⦁ Geographic indication infringing acts are not continuous torts.