Our trademark experts
Anne LEVY
Field of expertise
Trademarks, designs, copyrights (software), agreements, negotiation, licensing
20 years’ experience in IP law firm
Trademark & Design Attorney since 2007
European counsel with the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office)
15 years’ experience in a valuation and monetization firm
Mediator
Education
Graduate from INSEEC Business School
Master of Industrial Property Law, Paris II
Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI)
University diploma in mediation from IFOMENE
English spoken – Deutsch gesprochen – habla castellano
President and partner.
Activities
International Federation of Intellectual Property attorneys – FICPI
Asian Patent Attorneys Association – APAA
International Trademark Association – INTA
MARQUES
International Association for Protection of Intellectual Property – AIPPI
Secretary of the French FICPI Association (ACPI) for 6 years
And
Adores her two children, can not get enough of Woody Allen, the Coen brothers, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder and others.
Séverine FITOUSSI
Field of expertise
Trademarks, designs, domain names, copyright, unfair competition, negotiation, contractual technique, GDPR.
20 years of experience as Trademark attorney in IP boutiques.
Trademark & Design Attorney
European Counsel with the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office)
Education
Master 1 in private law
Master 2 in liability law
Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI)
English spoken – habla español
Activities
International Trade Mark Association – INTA
Association of Practitioners of trademark and design law – APRAM
Association of Friends of CEIPI – AACEIPI
International Association for Protection of Intellectual Property – AIPPI
Regional delegate of the French Association of IP attorneys (CNCPI) in the Centre Val de Loire region (2015-2017)
Other
Passionate about contemporary art
Anais DAHLAL
Administrative assistant for trademarks and designs
English spoken
To contact Anais: trademark@brandon-ip.com
Intellectual Property attorneys, a regulated profession
The profession of Intellectual Property attorneys is governed by the Intellectual Property Code.
The Intellectual Property attorneys – specialising in Trademarks and Industrial Designs are legal practitioners with basic training.
They must have:
- a legal undergraduate national degree, or
- a degree issued by the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg, or any degree recognized as equivalent to it,
- professional experience of at least 3 years,
- successfully cleared a professional aptitude examination or have professional experience of eight years under the responsibility of a qualified person in intellectual property matters.
These conditions enable us, subject to meeting the criteria of background checks, to be registered in the list of qualified persons in matters of intellectual property.
Once accepted on this list, those who wish to become Intellectual Property attorneys must be registered on the list maintained by the French Office (INPI). All of them must be members of the CNCPI.
Intellectual Property attorneys for Trademarks & Industrial Designs advise and represent the firm’s clients for all issues related to the creation and legal validation of trademarks, the submission and protection strategy as well as their defense. We also intervene in matters of industrial designs, copyrights and domain names.
With our legal training, we are also capable of representing you in contract matters, in the field of intellectual property.
Since we cannot represent you before the courts, we work in close collaboration with lawyers who specialize in doing so and have combined with Rezac Law into Brandon Rezac.
The paralegal assistants
A paralegal assistant is in charge of what we call legal administration. As indicated by the name, he/she helps the legal practitioners and engineers who specialize in intellectual property law.
In our firm, the assistant also handles the tasks of a normal secretary: noting appointments, updating the agenda, drafting letters, reports and minutes of meetings, as well as the responsibilities specific to him/her, such as the administrative aspects of legal processes: general management of deadlines and client dossiers, contact with the intellectual property offices and clients.
He/she especially intervenes in the creation and updating of the portfolio of rights and is in charge of the entire administrative monitoring of the dossier. For this, a software suited to the profession is used in order to continuously have an accurate overview of the surveillance of the various deadlines and client portfolios.
Regarding the preparation and formalities of submission, renewal and registration of trademarks, patents, industrial designs in France and overseas, he/she must monitor all developments and the related formalities: monitoring of deadlines, agreements, replying to refusals and notifying irregularities to the Offices, issuance of rights, extensions, trademark watch, management of the invoicing for all these formalities. Before sending a reminder of a due date to the client, verification and research may be necessary on the client’s legal situation.
He/she must also ensure the management of domain names of clients, namely the reservation, monitoring and renewal with the service provider.
He/she also prepares the quotations, in collaboration with the legal practitioners or engineers, replies to client enquiries on the progress of their dossier or on more general questions.
This is a central post in which relations with clients and the different interveners play a significant role.