Beau de Loménie brings together about 70 patent and trademark attorneys, engineers and lawyers.
They assist their clients to protect, optimize, defend and enhance the value of their IP (patents, trademarks, design, copyright and domain names).
Our IP Attorneys are helped by experienced paralegals skilled for IP offices procedures. They also get the assistance of Beau de Loménie’s integrated services including filing departments (patents), filing and renewal department (trademarks and designs), annuities department, monitoring and research department, translation department.
Beau de Loménie’s chemistry team covers a very wide range of skills. Its specialists support the firm’s clients in highly varied fields:
CONTACT THE CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS TEAM
FOCUS ON THE CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS TEAM
The construction / materials team devotes itself to supporting French and international groups in the field of construction and civil engineering in the following areas:
CONTACT THE ELECTRICITY / ELECTRONICS TEAM
FOCUS ON THE ELECTRICITY / ELECTRONICS TEAM
Beau de Loménie’s team proposes an overall service for the protection of inventions in the fields of electricity and electronics. Its specialised engineers work in numerous fields:
CONTACT THE MECHANICS / PHYSICS TEAM
FOCUS ON THE MECHANICS / PHYSICS TEAM
Beau de Loménie’s mechanics/physics team advises numerous groups and SMEs in the most varied fields:
CONTACT THE LIFE SCIENCES / PHARMACEUTICALS TEAM
FOCUS ON THE LIFE SCIENCES / PHARMACEUTICALS TEAM
Life sciences are revolutionising daily life in the field of health, as well as in the agri-food sector. The firm’s life Sciences and pharmaceuticals team is multidisciplinary, in order to cover all innovations in the fields of biotechnologies and pharmaceutical chemistry:
CONTACT THE TELECOMS / NEW TECHNOLOGIES TEAM
FOCUS ON THE TELECOMS / NEW TECHNOLOGIES TEAM
Technological progress in new technologies and telecoms is taking place at a very rapid rate. Beau de Loménie’s Telecoms / New Technologies team closely follows the latest developments in all technologies, such as:
CONTACT THE LEGAL TEAM (ANTI-COUNTERFEITING)
Global, often clever and stealthy, counterfeiting is a serious problem for numerous companies. Beau de Lomenie’s team of specialists assists you in combating the manufacture, importation and distribution of counterfeit products.
Beau de Loménie works closely with the client, helping in the detecting and seizing of counterfeit products, and providing support in any resulting disputes.
CONTACT THE LEGAL TEAM (CONTRACTS AND LITIGATION)
The contracts and litigation department consists of trained lawyers and experts in law who support the interventions of specialist consultants in the areas of patents, trademarks and designs.
The contracts and litigation team has long practical experience of contracts relating to the exploitation of IP rights, which can prove to be complex particularly for patents. On behalf of companies and major international groups they draft and establish contracts that cover the communication of know-how and transfers of patents, licences, research agreements and confidentiality undertakings, development co-operation agreements, etc.
They work in partnership with the teams of patent attorneys in the preparation and handling of disputes.
The contracts and litigation department also constantly monitors the legal situation in France and abroad.
CONTACT THE LEGAL TEAM (AUDITS)
Beau de Loménie’s teams specialising in audits and valuation of IP rights contain engineers and lawyers specifically trained to handle these complex matters.
Their combination of skills allows them to conduct audits and valuations of IP rights in the context of acquisitions or disposals of companies, increases in capital/rights issues, pledges of collateral or the arrival of new shareholders.
Beau de Loménie is a certified training provider. At the request of its clients the firm designs and implements awareness-raising and training programmes with regard to IP at all levels of clients’ companies.
Drawing upon its wide experience of training, the firm has developed flexible, powerful teaching tools that can be adapted to the particular needs of each company.
The training offered by the firm can range from the straightforward raising of employee awareness with respect to intellectual property to organising high-level technical conferences covering specific technological and legal issues.
The firm can also train legal departments in the organisation of the company’s IP hub and how to handle invention declaration procedures and remuneration of employee-inventors.
CONTACT THE MONITORING AND SEARCH TEAM
The firm has an integrated research department to carry out prior art searches, freedom-to-operate searches and technological monitoring.
Exclusive databases are systematically updated so that the four engineers in our monitoring and research department can follow in great detail the latest technological developments in great detail.
The firm’s clients can have regular access to reports on the technological activity of their competitors (patents filed, scientific publications) in the form of databases that can be supplemented by staff in their own R&D and IP departments. The firm can also provide detailed mapping of the geographical and technological range of protection established by your competitors, permitting clients to observe the regions and techniques they are developing.
Lastly, the monitoring and research team has access to numerous databases for researching trademarks and domain names. The firm also has the capacity to carry out availability searches and to monitor developments in competitors’ activities in relation to designs.
CONTACT THE TRANSLATION DEPARTEMENT
Beau de Lomenie’s translation department is organised in a practical and efficient way around a core team of four staff translators who only handle a percentage of all the firm’s translation work. To cater for the entire workload in all fields, the firm has also trained up external translators in IP terminology.
The firm’s translation department is available to its French and foreign clients. The translators benefit from the support offered by the firm’s UK and German patent and trademark attorneys for translations into their respective languages.
Regular exacting quality controls are performed on the translators’ work, which includes grading and proofreading their work.
CONTACT THE DESIGN DEPARTEMENT
Two professional designers are available to work up graphical representations of Beau de Lomenie’s clients’ inventions and creations so they can be incorporated into patent specifications or filed as designs.
The acquisition and maintenance of IP rights attached to patents requires constant close monitoring.
The patent filing and annuities department gives Beau de Lomenie’s patent attorneys support in accomplishing these administrative procedures all over the world, as well as setting up and managing online patent filling systems.
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The acquisition and renewal of IP rights attached to trademarks and designs requires constant close monitoring. The trademark and design filing and renewal department gives the firm’s legal experts support, facilitating the management of these administrative procedures throughout the world.
Contact: Aurélia MARIE
The registration and renewal of domain names requires constant close monitoring. The domain name registration and renewal department undertakes these administrative procedures worldwide.
Contact: Aurélia MARIE