DESIGNs

INSCRIPTA protects your creations and designs worldwide.

Before filing your design application

• Selecting the views and figures.
• Assessing registrability of the designs.
• Defining the relevant country or countries.
• Prior art searches and availability searches.
• Seniority searches.

Applying for and registering your designs

• Identification of the views and figures.
• Filing of design application before Patent and Trademark Offices (INPI for French designs, EUIPO for Community designs, WIPO for International registrations, foreign PTOs).
• Following-up of registration procedures in France and abroad.
• Reporting and responding to office actions.
• Reporting and responding to oppositions.
• Verifying official documents.

In addition to design registration

• Docketing your designs and official documents into our database.
• Monitoring upcoming official deadlines, annuities and renewals.
• Managing and optimizing your designs portfolio.
• After your designs are registered
• Infringement opinions.
• Competitive intelligence.
• Due diligence.
• Registering your designs with customs services.
• Registering change of name, change of legal form or change of address of the owner.
• Cancellation or revocation actions.
• Freedom to operate opinions (FTOs).
• Amicable and judicial disputes.
• Drafting contracts and agreements.
• Legal consultations and opinions.
• Audits.
• Assessment of design portfolios.
• Financial evaluation of designs.
• Licence agreements and assignments.
• Registering of transfer of ownership.
• Registering of licence agreements.
• IP training or courses.

A few examples of what we do

• Filing and registering industrial designs in the fields of aeronautics | agricultural machinery | clothing | communications | cooking | cosmetics | design | distribution | electricity | electronics | energy | food industry | furniture | hardware | healthcare | household appliances | information technologies | jewellery | leather goods | mechanics | mechatronics | medical and surgical equipment | music | office equipment | optics | packaging | pastry | perfumes | pharmacy | plumbing | restaurants | robotics | sanitary installations | software | sports | surgery | thermal engineering | watch making | water treatment | wind energy | etc.
• Defending a design infringement and unfair competition lawsuit in the environment industry.
• Due diligence in preparation for a transfer of trademarks and designs in the field of aeronautics.
• Protecting the creations of a pastry chef and chocolate maker.
• Defending an unfair competition and passing-off claim related to a concept of food packaging.
• Filing and registering of designs for surgical instruments.
• Freedom to operate (FTO) related to trademarks and designs in the food industry.
• Defending unfair competition and passing-off claims in the food industry.
• Drafting strategy of protection for interior designs of shops for perfumes.
• Fighting against online infringement and fake goods in the food industry.
• Protecting the creations of an illustrator in the food industry.
• Filing a design infringement and unfair competition lawsuit in the field of sanitary installations.