August & Debouzy acts for its clients in patent litigation cases before the national courts. The members of its patent team have dual legal and engineering training and are qualified to handle cases in most technical fields (telecoms, mechanics, electronics, chemistry and pharmacy).  Their technical expertise thus enables them to advise on highly technical litigation, such as unfair competition cases.

We assist with filing applications for domain name trade marks and designs and offer assistance with searching and analysing prior rights, national, European and international registrations.

We advise our clients on valuing their intellectual property assets. Our specialist lawyers regularly draft and negotiate license agreements and intellectual property assignments.

August & Debouzy offers expert advice on employee invention matters. We regularly advise our clients on drafting employment contracts, so that the clauses on employee inventions comply with applicable legislation, and we act for them when disputes arise regarding such employee inventions.

We have an extensive anti-infringement and counterfeiting practice and we advise a large number of our clients on these issues. We have built up relations with the Customs authorities and practice both in national and international matters, through a network of local corresponding firms coordinated by August & Debouzy.