The trade marks and designs team at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés offers a comprehensive range of services covering soft IP matters. This includes expertise in trade mark clearance, licensing issues, and the integration of intellectual property aspects into M&A deals. The team excels in assisting clients with various litigation scenarios related to trade mark rights, representing them before both French and EU courts, as well as the French IP Office and European IP Office. Additionally, they specialise in managing IP portfolios, leveraging the firm’s proficiency in areas such as tax, competition, and labor to provide clients with a holistic service for both contentious and non-contentious IP issues. Renowned experts, including Louis de Gaulle and Georgie Courtois, who are frequent contenders in civil and criminal courts, Julien Horn, adept at handling transactional IP matters and pleading cases, Francine Le Péchon-Joubert, specialising in contractual IP matters and disputes, and Serge Lederman, recognised for his strategic litigation skills across diverse sectors like fashion, design, media, all co-lead the team.

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Key clients

  • Bahlsen
  • Careventures Fund li Gp
  • Château de Versailles
  • Colgate Palmolive
  • DreamWorks Animation
  • Echosens
  • Energy Observer Developments
  • Epic Games
  • Fédération Française de Tennis
  • Fresenius
  • Haribo
  • Icade
  • Ile-de-France Mobilité (IDFM)
  • Interop’ Santé
  • Monte Carlo – Société des Bains de Mer
  • National Football League (NFL)
  • NBC UNIVERSAL
  • Opéra de Paris
  • Optic 2000
  • Palais des Thés
  • Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmétiques (PFDC)
  • Pure Laboratories
  • RH US, LLC.
  • Rival Boxing
  • Showroomprivé.com
  • Sire Spirits – 50C
  • Skechers
  • The Fragrance Designers
  • Twinings
  • Warner Bros

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Louis de Gaulle, Georgie Courtois, Julien Horn, Francine Le Péchon-Joubert, Serge Lederman

Other key lawyers

Charlotte Hébert-Salomon