Intellectual Property
& Media
FIRSH assists companies in defining their intellectual property strategy, and in particular in defending their creations and innovations, through the protection of trademarks, designs, copyrights, sui generis rights, patents and know-how.
This assistance is twofold:
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- Upstream, at the consulting level, with an anticipatory protection strategy through the protection of intellectual property rights, as well as the drafting and negotiation of associated contracts;
- Downstream, at the pre-litigation and litigation level, to defend against third-party infringement in order to put an end to it as quickly as possible.
Objective :
To ensure effective protection, create competitive advantages and enhance the value of the company’s intangible assets.
Our work includes:
- Securing your filings through in-depth clearance searches.
- Managing filings, registration procedures and renewals of your trademarks worldwide.
- Negotiating and drafting of all agreements designed to secure or enhance the value of your intellectual property rights, including coexistence agreements, licences, assignments, commercial agreements, agency, distribution, and franchise agreements.
- Monitoring trademark to react quickly and effictively to infringements of your rights.
- Representating and assisting clients in proceedings before the INPI, EUIPO, WIPO and AFNIC, including opposition, invalidity, UDRP and SYRELI proceedings.
- Formal notices, infringement seizures, interim proceedings including general law, press and fake-news proceedings, and accelerated proceedings on the merits under the French Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004, on Confidence in the Digital Economy (LCEN).
- Enforcement measures to secure claims.
- Mediation, alternative dispute resolution.
- Invalidity, ownership, infringement an unfair competition actions before the competent courts.
- Arbitration proceedings
Media & Entertainment
FIRSH has developed specific expertise in film law, audiovisual law, live performance, press and publishing law, commonly referred to as media and entertainment law.
With the rise of AI, the increase in cyber-violence and the firm’s regular work on deepfakes, FIRSH is positioned as a leading firm for the legal issues involved in removing deepfakes and other manipulated content from social networks and platforms.
Concrete objective: to protect creation and its authors from development through to exploitation, whether cinematographic, audiovisual, musical, scenographic or literary.
Our work includes:
- Drafting and negotiating agreements for copyright assignments, adapatations of pre-existing works and acquisitions of foreign formats.
- Drafting and negotiating agreements with screenwriters, author-directors, option agreements, renewals of rights, co-production, distribution and sales agreements, adaptation-rights acquisitions, synchronisation agreements and commissioned musical-composition agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating production, adaptation, stage-direction and scenography agreements.
- Drafting and negotiating publishing, adaptation, translation and illustration agreements.
- Assistance in infringement actions, disputes between authors and publishers, publishers, authors and co-authors and plagiarism matters.
- Handling press-law, image-rights and e-reputation litigation, both civil and criminal.
