Intellectual and industrial property audit
Gouache Avocats conducts the Inventions, Industrial Rights of its customers to assess the level of their protection and subsequently, improve it, or in the context of an assignment, take all the reservations and guarantees related to shortcomings in terms of trademark protection, copyright, designs and models or IT solutions:
Brand Audit:
- brand validity
- analysis of prior art;
- analysis of possible existing counterfeits;
- scope of protection of the trade mark
- analysis of the validity and enforceability of trademark licenses.
no authors’ rights.
- protectability of a work;
- regularity of the acquisition of copyrights;
- audits of the validity of copyright contracts
- tax aspects of the ownership and exploitation / assignment of trademarks and copyrights.
IT 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.