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Intellectual property

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  • Defending your designs: infringement proceedings and other remedies

    By Yasmine EDDAM
    4 April 2025
    html Discovering that a competitor is imitating or copying the look of your product, which you have taken time to design and which you have taken care to protect with a design registration, is often an unpleasant and damaging experience for your business. Copying can turn off your customers, devalue your image and wipe out your innovation efforts and investments. Faced with such a situation, remaining passive is not an option. Fortunately, French law offers you an arsenal of legal tools to take action, put a stop to the infringement of your rights and obtain compensation for the damage suffered. Infringement proceedings are the main way of defending your monopoly, but they are not the only way. Other procedures exist, particularly for taking urgent action or gathering the necessary evidence before a trial on the merits. Understanding these different remedies, their conditions and objectives, will enable you to choose the right strategy...
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