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IP /IT Audit

Audit of intellectual and industrial property

Gouache Avocats conducts audits of the intellectual and industrial property of its clients to assess the level of their protection and subsequently, improve it, or as part of an assignment, take all reservations and guarantees related to shortcomings in the protection of trademarks, copyrights, designs and models or IT solutions:

Brand

Audit:

validity of the mark;
analysis of prior art;
analysis of possible existing counterfeits;
analysis of the scope of trademark protection;
analysis of the validity and enforceability of trademark licenses.

Audit:

protectability of a work;
regularity of the acquisition of copyrights;
audits of the validity of copyright contracts

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aspects of the ownership and exploitation / assignment of trademarks and copyrights.

Audit:

analysis of the extent of domain name provision;
analysis of the scope of rights on IT solutions (software, SaaS, etc.)
analysis of existing or anticipated processing with regard to customers’ personal data to contractually organize the relations between the various stakeholders (data controller and subcontractors);
checks on authorisations to access or use third party data.

Gouache Avocats provides a summary intellectual property rights analysis report detailing the issues identified, identifying and quantifying the risks incurred, if any, and making recommendations to improve the protection of intellectual and industrial property rights of brands.