Other Areas of Expertise: Strengthening and Securing Your Legal Strategy

Beyond core intellectual property matters, certain specific issues require complementary expertise.
LAZULI assists companies and executives on related, often strategic matters, in order to secure their activities and prevent legal risks.

Shedule a meeting
The name “LAZULI” refers to lapis lazuli, a semi-precious stone symbolizing value and durability.
This name reflects a vision of intellectual property: a creation is not merely an idea, but a value that is built, preserved, and defended over time.

Lazuli Law Firm’s Areas of Practice

Trademark Law

Copyright & NEIGHBOURING Rights

Copyright & AI

Influencer Law & E-reputation

Image Rights & Privacy

Infringement & Unfair Competition

Designs

Domain Names

Other Areas of Expertise

Software Law

The development and sometimes unlawful use of software raise specific legal issues.

The firm assists in particular with:

  • Drafting copyright assignment agreements for software (source code is protected by copyright)
  • Dispute management: cease-and-desist letters from software publishers, software infringement actions
  • Seizure of evidence (saisie-contrefaçon) to establish proof of copyright infringement in software

Objective: protect your software or respond to claims from publishers.

Database Protection

Databases may benefit from specific legal protection.

The firm assists you with:

  • Legal qualification (copyright / sui generis database right)
  • Protection of investments
  • Exploitation and value enhancement
  • Litigation involving database producers

Civil Procedure

The firm has extensive experience in litigation before judicial civil courts.

The firm assists with:

  • Representation (“postulation”) before courts under the jurisdiction of the Paris Court of Appeal
  • Procedural steps (summons, exchanges with the court registry, certificates of non-appeal, etc.)
  • Appeals against first-instance decisions
  • Enforcement of court decisions
  • Requests for international civil rogatory commissions

A lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar is the only professional authorized to carry out procedural acts before the Paris Court of first instance.

Mediation

Courts increasingly encourage parties to resolve their disputes through mediation.

What is mediation?

  • Mediation may be court-ordered or voluntary, before any legal proceedings
  • Everything said during mediation is confidential, including vis-à-vis judges
  • The lawyer’s role is to assist and advise their client throughout the mediation process
  • The parties meet with a mediator and communicate directly; if successful, a mediation agreement brings the dispute to an end

The firm assists and advises its clients throughout mediation proceedings.

Geographical Indications (GI, AOP, PDO)

Certain activities benefit from specific protections linked to their origin.

The firm assists with:

  • Protection of trademarks including a geographical indication (GI), an appellation d’origine contrôlée (AOC) or a protected designation of origin (PDO)
  • Dispute management
  • Support for the relevant stakeholders

Wine Law

The wine sector raises specific legal issues, particularly in trademark matters.

The firm assists in particular with:

  • Applicable regulations
  • Protection of estate trademarks and commercial trademarks
  • Litigation, for example: cancellation actions against trademarks infringing a geographical indication

Examples of CASES HANDLED

Over the past few years, Jérémie LEROY-RINGUET has notably:

  • Defended a winegrower in a trademark cancellation action
  • Assisted several clients in mediation, in the frame of infringement or unfair competition actions
  • Represented several clients accused of trademark infringement by software publishers and obtained the rejection of three actions (around 8 million euros were requested)
  • Obtained a court order for an international civil rogatory commission
  • Defended a client against a competitor who had sued him for infringing his database rights

Support from Lazuli

Some situations require in-depth analysis.
Lazuli assists you in securing your projects and defending your interests.

Do you have a specific issue?

Contact Lazuli

FAQ – Other Areas of Expertise

It is necessary to demonstrate that you initiated and bore the financial, material, and human investments required to create, verify, or present the database.

It is the role of a lawyer in formally representing a client by carrying out procedural acts before courts without being the lawyer who drafts and pleads the case.
A party may have both a pleading lawyer and a “postulating” lawyer, the latter being required when the pleading lawyer is not admitted to the relevant bar.

It is a confidential process, led by a mediator who brings the parties together—either at their request or at the request of a judge—to help them reach a solution to their dispute and resolve their conflict.

During mediation, the lawyer advises his/her client on the objectives to be achieved, the attitude to adopt during meetings with the opposing party, and the opportunity to accept or not the proposed agreement.

It is a sign similar to a trademark that can only be used by producers located in a specific geographical area.
For example, “Roquefort” is a geographical indication that only authorized producers in that region may use to designate their cheeses.

AOC is the French equivalent of the European PDO (protected designation of origin).
GI is less restrictive: only one of the stages of production, processing, or preparation must take place in the designated geographical area.

It is a trademark registered by a wine producer to designate their wine, incorporating the name of the estate (château, clos, domaine, mas, moulin, etc.), as opposed to a purely commercial or fanciful trademark.

No. Even beneficiaries of an AOC cannot appropriate its name by registering it as a trademark.