Casalonga

With more than 150 years of history, Casalonga is a leading European IP law firm of more than 120 lawyers, patent and trademark attorneys, legal experts and engineers with offices in France (including Paris, Grenoble, Toulouse, Lyon, Montpellier, Beaune, Pau), Spain (Alicante) and Germany (Munich), as well as a global network of correspondents.

CASALONGA offers its clients full-services IP, from prosecution and counseling to litigation, covering all types of IP rights (trademarks, patents, designs, domain names and copyright) and related laws (unfair competition, distribution and economic rights).

CASALONGA's attorneys have extensive experience in proceedings before the trademark and patent offices and regularly appear before the courts. CASALONGA is involved in the most important patent cases (SPC, Frand, pharma patents, etc.) and regularly represent its clients in important trademark cases, both before the French IPO and French courts as well as before the EUIPO and the European General Court. CASALONGA is at the forefront of innovative and successful strategies for the defense and enforcement of the client’s  rights.

CASALONGA was:

• one of the first private IP engineer consultant firms, with the foundation of Bureau CASALONGA in Paris in 1867
• one of the first French firms to expand internationally, with the establishment of:
  • the Munich office in 1978, as a European and German patent attorneys office
  • the Alicante office in 1996, handling of EU trademarks
    to optimize contacts with European authorities, intervene directly before the EPO (Munich) and the EUIPO (Alicante) at lower costs and to represent the clients before German and Spanish offices and courts.
• the first French law firm to include both attorneys-at-law and patent and trademark attorneys, creating a full-service IP firm whose clients do not have to engage different firms for prosecution and litigation. The combination of attorneys-at-law and patent and trademark attorneys enables CASALONGA’s teams to follow their client’s cases from the inception phase through any court proceedings and also provides more balanced advice, taking into consideration litigations risks.

The law firm is organized in five different departments:

• patent prosecution and counseling
• trademark and design prosecution and counseling
• domain names and Internet prosecution and counseling
• wine, spirits and law food
• IP litigation (including patent litigation and trademark and design litigation).

Those different departments work closely together, providing the clients a strength that no other firm may provide.

CASALONGA provides its clients with the following:

• A full IP service and excellence in all fields – CASALONGA provides all types of IP services with specialized lawyers, trademark and patent attorneys and specialized staff. As a result of its full-service IP capacity, CASALONGA is able to provide each of its clients with a team that has a global vision of each client’s rights and interests and that is consequently able to protect such rights and interests efficiently and effectively.
• A customer-driven service, with a dedicated team of lawyers and assistants that provides customized services depending on the client’s specific needs and requests. For each client, CASALONGA establishes a strategy adapted to the stakes, economic interests and financial constraints, allowing the best support within a controlled budget.
• Innovative services – CASALONGA's thinking and development strategies are all driven towards the clients: what new service or new way of proposing its services would make the clients’ business and IP protection easier, more cost-efficient and more effective?
• Long-term commitment to its clients – CASALONGA builds long-term, confidence-based relationships with its clients.
• Global services – with a selection of IP firms in each country and a strong international in-house department of lawyers from the principal jurisdictions (United States, Canada, China, Germany, Spain and most South American countries). CASALONGA's international department enables to better advise the clients globally as well as cost-effectively.

Furthermore, CASALONGA has always believed that IT and legal innovation are key.

IT innovation to create efficiency and costs savings for the clients is at the heart of CASALONGA's mission. CASALONGA believes that an IP law firm cannot only provide legal services, but also has to provide IT and legal solutions.

In particular, CASALONGA believes in innovation through exchanges, not only among partners, but also with clients, associates, assistants and other professionals.

For each difficult legal issue, CASALONGA has developed a new way of thinking, involving different types of competence, for a full open collaborative discussion. CASALONGA's three-fold competence of lawyers and patent and trademark attorneys truly helps innovation with case law overview from the EPO, the EUIPO, the Court of Justice and the French Courts, and most of all, different backgrounds with different ways of thinking.

CASALONGA regularly exchanges with its clients in order to understand their needs and develop new IP tools to serve such needs.

In the context of the entry into force of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the Unitary Patent (UP), CASALONGA recently developed:

• the UNITARY PATENT APP, accessible directly via CASALONGA's website (https://upp.casalonga.com) and available on Google Play and Apple Store, which allows one to calculate in advance the official fees required to maintain a granted patent, depending on whether the unitary patent has been chosen or not (more information here).
• the Interactive UPC Code, freely accessible to all upon registration on www.upc-casalonga.eu, to easily navigate through all of the UPC texts and to better understand the system thanks to a number of commentaries (more information here).

These IP innovations are very much appreciated by the clients as they help them to be more efficient and cost-effective.;

CASALONGA also participates actively in diverse IP organizations, including INTA, ECTA, the European Patent Institute (epi), the French organization representing Patent & Trademark Attorneys (CNCPI), the French Association of Industrial Property Attorneys (ACPI), the European Patent Litigators Association (EPLIT), the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the Licensing Executive Society (LES), the French Association of Trademark and Design Law (APRAM), the French Association of Industrial Property Lawyers (AAPI), the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), the French Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (AFPPI), MARQUES, the Pharmaceutical Trademarks Group (PTMG) and the Association of European Patent Practitioners (APEB).

CASALONGA's attorneys regularly teach IP in several different educational institutions, frequently publishes articles in the IP field in specialized magazines and presents diverse subjects in the IP sector at conferences all over the world.

CASALONGA's attorneys frequently publish articles in the IP field in specialized magazines and present diverse subjects in the IP sector at conferences all over the world.