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All European patent attorneys of Regimbeau are now registered to act before the Unified Patent Court, forming a team of almost 40 UPC Representatives covering all technical fields.

Regimbeau’s patent attorneys have built up a strong litigation practice, leveraging the technical and legal expertise of the teams working on complex cases. This dual expertise is recognized and rewarded by the best national and international industrial property rankings.

In 2023, Regimbeau has established an alliance with Gide Loyrette Nouel, creating one of the most powerful European taskforce dedicated to your patent litigation, particularly before the central division of the UPC as well as before the various local or regional divisions thereof.

With the increasing complexity of national proceedings and the entry into force of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) , Gide Loyrette Nouel and Regimbeau have decided to join forces and create one of the  largest European partnership for patent litigation between Lawyers and Patent Attorneys: Gide x Regimbeau – Patent Litigation. 

The two leading French firms, which have been working together for 30 years and share a wealth of experience in patent litigation, have thus created one of the strongest and most expert patent litigation team in Europe.  

Gide has one of the largest team of patent lawyers in France, recognised for their expertise and skills, particularly in multi-jurisdictional litigation.  

Regimbeau relies on highly specialised scientific experts in the most complex technical fields and on a recognised practice of patent litigation in France and internationally. 

The creation of the UPC, which will come into effect on 1^st June 2023, marks a decisive step in the construction of a harmonised intellectual property system in Europe. In this context, France will be home to both the headquarters of the central division of the UPC’s Court of First Instance and its French local division in Paris. This new jurisdiction will require a perfect mastery of all the components of French and pan-European patent litigation, within very short deadlines. 

Thanks to their Parisian anchorage, at the heart of the UPC, the teams of the Gide x Regimbeau – Patent Litigation alliance will be able to coordinate all their offices and networks in France, Europe and internationally, wherever disputes may arise.  

The scope of this alliance is patent and know-how litigation, within the jurisdiction of a national court or the UPC. 

This multidisciplinary taskforce of some sixty professionals deals with all technical fields (from life sciences to new digital technologies, chemistry to mechanics and telecoms) and defends its clients in matters relating to patents, supplementary protection certificates and trade secrets before all French courts and, as of now, before the UPC. 

“Thanks to this strategic alliance with Regimbeau, we have a major impact on the market and a global solution designed to respond to significant developments in the sector  so as to provide our clients with an even more sophisticated and efficient quality of service in the resolution of patent disputes”, says Frédéric Nouel, Senior Partner – Gide Loyrette Nouel.  

“While all eyes are on the entry into force of the UPC, we are particularly confident in our ability to respond together to the new challenges of this jurisdiction. Our in-depth knowledge of the French legal system and of the new UPC procedures gives us a significant competitive advantage in supporting our clients through this change”, says Anne Boutaric, Partner – Regimbeau.  

Find out more : www.gide-regimbeau-patentlitigation.com 

Paris, 19 July 2023 – Regimbeau, a French and European intellectual property firm, announces the release of the second edition of its book providing economic stakeholders with an insight into the strategic opportunities offered by the European patent with unitary effect and the Unified Patent Court (UPC).

The patent system in Europe is undergoing profound changes following the entry into force on June 1, 2023 of the agreements establishing the European patent with unitary effect and the UPC. Therefore, a select group of Regimbeau’s European Patent Attorneys have examined the diverse legal framework of the future unitary patents and the UPC, of which the Central Division will be located in Paris. This second edition takes into account all the recent developments of the initiative since the ratification of the provisional application protocol (PAP) in January 2022.

“The implementation of the Unified Patent Court will radically reshape patent filing and litigation strategy in Europe. This is the most significant change in the intellectual property sector in decades. Companies will be able to protect their inventions in the main EU countries through a centralized procedure while realizing substantial savings,” explains Stéphanie Massin Celaire, a partner at Regimbeau.

The book is entitled Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court: Europe Adopts New Tools to Promote Innovation and explores the following key topics:

• Procedure before the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Conditions of validity and grounds for invalidity before the UPC
• Patent protection and acts of infringement
• Languages of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court
• Evidence
• Supplementary protection certificates
• Mediation and arbitration
• Representation before the UPC
• General rules of procedure
• Impact on license agreements
• Jurisdiction of the UPC and of the national courts and the applicable law
• The Unitary Patent

After releasing a French edition in March 2023, Regimbeau now announces the release of its English edition. This edition is now available in digital and physical format.

About Regimbeau:

Regimbeau, a French & European IP law firm, has been assisting companies and private and public project developers to protect, enhance and defend their innovations (patents, trademarks, designs) for more than 90 years. Sixteen partners head a team of more than 200 people whose skills are put into practice in every strategic aspect of Intellectual Property – business intelligence and information search, license agreements, IP portfolio audits, partnership negotiations, acquisition of industrial property rights, litigation. Thanks to its wide-ranging expertise, Regimbeau (present in Paris, Munich, Lyon, Rennes, Grenoble, Montpellier and Toulouse) can meet its clients’ needs for international strategic consulting while preserving personalized relations of the highest quality.

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Each year, in France, companies with more than 50 employees are required to calculate and publish their professional gender equality index.

The Professional Women-Men Equality Index is a tool made available to companies by the French Ministry in charge of Labour, intended to help them in the approach towards achieving professional equality between women and men.

This year, Regimbeau obtained a score of 80/100. This score encourages us to continue our work by defining a progression plan in favor of professional equality between women and men. Parity is our priority.

3, 2, 1, Go!

The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will come into effect on June 1, 2023. Since March 1, 2023, the “Sunrise Period” already allows to act on European patents and European patent applications, especially to derogate from the exclusive competence of the UPC by filing an “opt-out”.

New system, new reflexes!

To this end, Regimbeau’s IP Intelligence Department can help you to:

Monitor your competitors

How will your competitors make use of the Sunrise Period? How will they orient their portfolio? Thanks to an active monitoring, you can detect their strategy.

Monitor patents by technical field

Depending on the technical fields, will we see different ways of using this new system?

Monitor specific patents

You have detected one or more titles that especially interest you. Monitor a potential opt-out filing during the Sunrise Period or during the transitional period.

Monitor your patent portfolio

Make sure that third parties do not file an opt-out on your own patents and react quickly if you identify an opt-out filed without your consent.

The IP Intelligence Department, made up of a multidisciplinary team of dedicated engineers, remains at your disposal to alert you regarding new data put online.

A tailor-made monitoring will be proposed to you to maintain your competitive advantage and anticipate the future.

For a personalized price offer, please contact us!

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Frédérique Durieux and Anne Seibel as new partners of Regimbeau.

Their respective backgrounds lead them to take a new step at Regimbeau, thus strengthening the dynamics of the firm’s management and particularly of the IT-Mechanics-Physics department.

“We are very pleased to welcome Anne and Frédérique to the Regimbeau management team. They will put their business expertise and their know-how at the service of Regimbeau’s development and its continued improvement. They will contribute to the embodiment of Regimbeau’s values (competence, trust, creativity, collaboration) in order to maintain its position as a leader in the French and European Intellectual Property markets,” says Jean-Robert Callon de Lamarck, Managing Partner of Regimbeau.

Regimbeau’s management team is now composed of :

• Life Sciences & Chemistry Department: Frédérique Faivre Petit, Barbara Casadewall, Anne Bogard Boutaric, Stéphanie Massin Celaire and Emmanuelle Levy

• IT-Mechanics-Physics Department: Jean-Robert Callon de Lamarck, Jérôme Collin, Marie Audren, Sylvain Thivillier, Emmanuel Potdevin, Anne Seibel, and Frédérique Durieux

• Trademarks and Designs Department: Evelyne Roux, Isabelle Thill, Martine Bloch-Weill and Olivier Prats

• Contracts, Valuation & Data Department: Martine Bloch-Weill and Marc Levieils

The teams at Regimbeau wish you a very happy holiday season and a successful year 2023!

We are more than happy to wish all our clients and foreign associates a wonderful year filled with joy and fulfillment! We are thankful for your constant support and enthusiasm and look forward to continuing our collaboration!

May all your greatest ambitions and ideas be achieved!