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Caroline Casalonga

Caroline Casalonga

Casalonga, France

Work Department

IP

Position

Partner / Paris and Munich Managing Partner

Attorney-at-law (Paris Bar) European Trademark and Community Design Attorney

Career

Caroline is Managing Partner of CASALONGA IP Law Firm.

She is specialized in patents, trademarks and other IP rights litigations. She has 30 years’ experience in all intellectual property fields from counselling to litigation. She commenced her career with Paul Mathely the most famous French IP litigator from the 60th to the end of the 90th, and then joined Pennie & Edmonds in New York City prior to practicing with CASALONGA & ASSOCIES, as a French and European Trademark Attorney.

In 2005, Caroline founded CASALONGA AVOCATS.

She advises large French and International companies on protecting and defending their intellectual property rights in different sectors including electronics, pharmaceutical goods, and consumer products. She has a strong expertise in the wine and GIs sector.

She represents our clients before the French Courts and the Court of Justice on all types of IP matters, including patents, trademarks, designs and copyright infringement and cancellation actions, unfair competition and distribution network actions.

She is recognized as one of the French leaders in Intellectual Property and is cited by the European Legal Experts Magazine, WTR 1000 and the Legal 500.

She regularly speaks at national and international conferences. She is a member of the ECTA anti-counterfeiting committee, AIDV, INTA, LES and the AIPPI.

Languages

French, English, German

Memberships

She is a member of numerous profession organisations such as the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI), the French Association of Trade Mark and Design Law (APRAM), the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA) for which she is member of the anti-counterfeiting committee, the International Trademark Association (INTA), the Licensing Executives Society France (LES France), IPSKI, the organisation Coalition Against Piracy Intellectual Property (CAPIP) and the International Wine Law Association (AIDV).

Education

Award in Wines - Level 2, Wine & Spirit Education Trust WSET, pass with Merit – 2022 ESSEC - MBA (MG56) – 2013-2014 LL.M. Cornell University – 1996 Paris Bar examination – 1993 Master (DEA) in Intellectual Property (University of Paris II) – 1992 Master in Law (University of Paris II) – 1991

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