The office advises and litigates in all areas of intellectual property and in all related and complementary fields, both for plaintiffs and defendants.
Gsmart Avocats is a leading firm in the field of economic intelligence.
Intellectual Property, Industrial Property, Image Rights
Literary and artistic property
Advice and litigation in copyright law, particularly in audiovisual, cinema, fashion, jewelry, watchmaking, art market, music law, etc.
Personality rights/image rights
Intellectual property related to winegrowing
(PGI, AOC (Controlled Origin Appellation), PDO, etc.)
Advice and litigation in trademarks, patents, designs, and plant breeders’ rights
Drafting contracts and setting up contractual arrangements
To preserve intellectual property assets.
Auditing and valuing IP portfolios and assets
Brands, know-how, designs, and patents.
Trademark, design, and patent registration strategy
Registration is handled by GSMART-IP, our Geneva-based patent attorney office.
Commercial Law
unfair competition, misappropriation, denigration, deceptive commercial practices
distribution
Selective distribution, franchise networks, exhaustion of rights and parallel, etc.
General Terms of Sale, NDA (non-disclosure agreement)
framework contracts, ÉGalim (French National Food Summit) Law, Évin (Anti-Smoking and Alcoholism) Law
Criminal Law and Customs Law
Criminal law on counterfeiting
Combating counterfeiting