Intellectual property: Copyright

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Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Rodolphe Boissau

Rodolphe Boissau

UGGC Avocats

Rodolphe has over 15 years of experience in IP and TMT. His key expertise notably includes audiovisual and cinema law, TV regulations, music law, data protection, online privacy, e-reputation, online communication campaigns, online fraud, impersonation, phishing. Rodolphe has extensive experience in handling media/communication campaign and public affairs cases involving notably corporate governance and finance matters in listed companies, tax evasion matters in multinational firms. Rodolphe has significant experience and skills in copyright and other type of litigation including court proceedings (e.g. blocking injunctions against massively infringing websites, copyright infringements, breach of contract, etc.) and administrative proceedings within regulatory bodies He enjoys extensive skills in music, audiovisual, publishing, fashion and show businesses, as well as franchising matters and issues relating to publications in the press.

Isabelle Leroux

Isabelle Leroux

Dentons

Isabelle Leroux is a Senior Counsel in Dentons' Paris office. She concentrates on intellectual property law and advises her clients on any issues relating to intellectual property (patents, trademarks, designs and models, copyright, domain names). She also has extensive experience in coordinating international IP litigation in Europe, in the Middle East countries and worldwide. Her experience also includes counselling (licensing including know how, trade secrets and R&D, trademark and domain name clearances, trademark and design filing programme, IP due diligence/audit, IP rights financial evaluation and tax issues, copyright issues, unfair competition, comparative advertising, labelling, etc.). Isabelle also is an expert in the implementation of worldwide trademark and design registration strategies and programs. Finally, Isabelle is panellist/arbitrator appointed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for resolving domain names arbitrations.

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Loïc  Lemercier

Loïc Lemercier

Dentons

Loïc Lemercier, Partner, heads the Intellectual Property and Technologies (IP&T) group of Dentons’ Paris office. Over the last 10 years, Loïc has handled both contentious and non-contentious patent, trademark, copyright, design, unfair competition and trade secret cases. Focusing on industrial property, Loïc has built a solid patent litigation track record assisting many large corporations with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical and telecoms sectors. Loïc's practice includes initiating and defending preliminary injunction proceedings, seizures for gathering evidence, and actions on the merits dealing with validity and/or infringement of the intellectual property rights. Loïc regularly advises clients in the technology sector, particularly in relation to FRAND obligations and the impact of those obligations on obtaining relief in France. In addition to his litigation work, Loïc advises his clients on contract negotiation and drafting (e.g., R&D, trademark or patent licensing, pledge agreement) in the context of M&A transactions.

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