Definition of intellectual properties
Intellectual property law, a branch of business law, is the one that determines all the rights conferred on individuals by intellectual works resulting from their creativity, and that regulates the protection of said rights.
The importance of the issue of intellectual property is obvious. Indeed, current societies are resolutely turned towards research and innovation, which conceals major economic and financial challenges. In such a system, it is vital for our activities to protect our know-how or our works from piracy and counterfeiting, thus avoiding shortfalls.
Since intellectual property issues are relatively complex, they can sometimes hide problems whose resolution is conditioned by the intervention of an expert. The Legal Advice Club firm is your privileged partner in legal advice in intellectual property law.
Our firm provides its clients with well-tailored assistance from our experts in intellectual property law. Highly experienced, they organize the securing, enhancement, operation, audit of your assets and above all the defense of your prerogatives, in various sectors of activity.
Intellectual property law consists of two branches:
- Industrial properties, which themselves include trademark law, but also patent law.
- Literary and artistic properties which consist of copyright and related rights.
Industrial properties
Industrial properties concern the protection of your trademarks and your scientific and technological inventions. They regulate the obtaining of patents on your trademarks, models and designs…
Industrial properties relate to useful industrial works that contribute to the production of wealth. Trademarks and names are part of industrial property law.
The protection of trademarks and the obtaining of patents are carried out with specialized institutions for the protection of intellectual property. These institutions can be national or continental depending on your location. You also have the possibility of protecting yourself directly with the WIPO, which is the world organization for intellectual property.
The firm’s experts support you in administrative actions before these institutions, and also ensure your defense abroad thanks to the assistance provided by our international partners.
How to proceed with the protection of industrial properties?
We show you the procedures! The protection of trademarks and inventions is achieved through a set of rules governed by trademark law but also by patent law.
Our Legal Advice Club firm is full of the best experts in trademark and patent monitoring.
Trademark law
It is the right which confers on a legal person governed by private law the monopoly of exploitation of the mark for the type of product or service that it offers.
Indeed, legal persons governed by private law may, in the exercise of their activities, use representations which make it possible to identify them or to distinguish their products and services from those of the competition.
These representations include the name of the company or a logo such as a sign that allows you to locate a point of sale.
Our specialists in legal advice inform you about the conditions of protection of your various brands and the effects of this protection once the right of ownership has been obtained.
Protecting your brand is an absolute necessity in order to avoid possible theft!
Indeed, it may happen that your trademark is the subject of a reproduction or counterfeit involving a risk of confusion. We are at your side for the defense of your rights.
In addition, our team assists you with the various legal operations on your brands (brand transfer, brand license, etc.).
We provide case-specific advice; it will then be a question of guiding and assisting you with the detailed procedure to follow.
You can also call on us to assist you in the process of labeling your local products.
Patent law
A patent is an intellectual property right over a creation or invention. The owner of the patent has the right to use his creation, to reap its benefits and to enjoy it as he pleases.
Our intellectual property experts support you throughout the process of obtaining patents on your creations. We provide you with free training on knowledge of the areas of patentability, i.e. all the creations likely to be patented and the conditions of patentability.
Subsequently, we advise and assist our clients with respect to the constitution and filing of patent applications according to the necessary formal and substantive conditions before the competent institution for the granting of patents.
Finally, we educate our clients on the rights and obligations that their patent titles confer on them.
We ensure your protection against any infringement that may be brought on your trademarks and title deeds, in order to ensure the peaceful exploitation of your trademarks and the sustainability of your rights.
Literary and artistic properties
Literary and artistic properties are a set of rights over literary and artistic works granted to creators and authors (copyrights), or rights granted to performers, producers of phonograms or videograms and audiovisual communication companies (rights neighbors).
Copyrights
It is a set of rights recognized to the creators or authors of literary, dramatic, musical, computer, photographic, visual arts works… These works are the property of their authors, and they enjoy and dispose of them as they please. It is also the set of rights granted to co-authors in collaborative works.
The specialists in intellectual property law of the Legal Advice Club firm assure you of your works the enjoyment of your moral, patrimonial, reproduction, transformation, distribution and sequel rights.
Neighboring rights
Neighboring rights, also called related rights, derive from copyright and belong to performers, producers of phonograms and videograms, and broadcasting companies.
Copyrights and related rights are generally managed by a joint copyright and related rights royalty company. It should be noted that apart from copyrights and neighboring rights, there are other forms of remuneration for owners: stamp, royalties, resale rights; we invite you to keep us informed of any concerns you may have regarding these different remunerations.
Our services
Interest in copyright and neighboring rights continues to grow around the world, because these rights involve enormous financial stakes. Indeed, the law on literary and artistic property being vast and complex, the use of an expert in copyright and neighboring rights is therefore very essential and indispensable.
When a major concern arises concerning your copyright and neighboring rights, you can entrust your defense to us, it is a mission that we take very seriously, because it requires special attention to achieve a good result.
Prevention is better than cure!
This is why we invite you to contact us today for any questions that may concern you.
It could be:
- Conditions of protection for your works.
- Types of copyrightable works.
- Different rights granted to authors.
- Concerns about collective works.
- Procedures for protecting your works.
- Remuneration and royalties conferred by copyright and related rights.
- Procedures for sanctioning the violation of the monopoly of holding your rights with regard to literary and artistic properties.
- Forms of remuneration for creators and investors in all cultural sectors, etc.
Our specialists advise you on the formation of publishing, assignment and license agreements, etc.
Do not waste any more time, consult our experts today, success is assured.