Septem Avocats provides support based on the following areas of expertise:

Protection, management and valuation of copyrights, neighboring rights, trademarks, designs and models, patents and other distinctive signs (corporate names, trade names, business signs, domain names), project risk analysis

Assignment, licensing, coexistence and exploitation of rights agreements

Civil and administrative proceedings (INPI, EUIPO, WIPO): infringement (infringement actions, seizure, identifying infringers via technical intermediaries and platforms, online content takedowns), ownership claims, oppositions and actions for invalidity or revocation of industrial property rights, unfair competition, free-riding

Protection, management and valuation of IT projects (software code protection)

Development, integration, maintenance, licensing, SaaS, assignment, terms of service, privacy policy

Contractual and tort liability

Project risk analysis, industry regulations

Non-compete, confidentiality and no-poach clauses

Commercial litigation, contractual and tort liability

Protection, management and valuation of trade secrets

NDAs, non-compete and no-poach agreements, internal AI policy

Trade secret infringement, breach of confidentiality, seizure

Project security, industry regulations and content clearance (slogans, visual and media assets, music)

Agencies and production companies contracts. Right transfers, partnership, sponsorship, endorsement and influencer agreements

Defense of advertisers, production companies, and agencies. Unfair commercial practices (misleading commercial practices, ambush marketing, comparative advertising), unfair competition, and free-riding

Protection, management and valuation of personality rights (privacy, name, image, voice, etc.)

Assignment and authorization for the use of personality rights (privacy, name, image, voice, etc.), agency, production, rights assignment, partnership, sponsorship, endorsement and influencer agreements

Slander, disparagement, infringement of personality rights, cyberbullying, and takedown requests

Personal data protection and management (compliance audits and processes, privacy policies, records of processing activities and data protection impact assessments (DPIA)

Joint controller, data processing and data transfer agreements

Defense before the CNIL, GDPR litigation