Weinstein Services & Counsel Protecting your innovations

We assist our clients in building, protecting and defending their trademarks, in France and worldwide. Each strategy is designed to secure commercial use while limiting legal risks.

We get involved as early as the strategic planning stage: choice of distinctive sign, scope of protection, relevant territories and filing schedule. In-depth prior-art searches help assess the trademark's availability and anticipate any risk of conflict.

The firm handles the drafting, filing and prosecution of trademark applications before the relevant offices, through to registration. We also manage trademark watch services, the detection of potential infringements, and the implementation of appropriate actions (oppositions, negotiations, proceedings).

Finally, we support our clients in the management and valorisation of their trademark portfolios: renewals, licences, assignments, coexistence agreements and international development strategies.

Design is a key driver of differentiation and value. Weinstein Services & Counsel protects the appearance of your products, interfaces, packaging and aesthetic creations against copying and imitation.

We advise our clients on the most appropriate protection strategy, taking into account product life cycles, target markets and commercial constraints. Prior-art searches help assess the novelty and scope of the creations.

The firm handles the full preparation of design files: selection of views, definition of variants, drafting and filing before national and international offices. We also manage renewals and portfolio administration.

We support innovative companies in protecting and leveraging their technical inventions. Our objective is to turn innovation into a sustainable competitive advantage.

The firm intervenes from the earliest stages with patentability studies and prior-art searches in order to assess the relevance of filing. We then design a coherent protection strategy, including the trade-off between trade secret, patent, international extensions and filing schedule. We draft patent applications in close collaboration with your technical teams, and prosecute the applications through to grant. We also manage international extensions (Europe, PCT, target countries).

Finally, we advise our clients on freedom-to-operate matters, technology watch, valorisation of patent portfolios and contractual structuring (licences, partnerships, collaborative R&D).

Weinstein Services & Counsel provides high value-added strategic advice to inform our clients' key decisions.

We carry out comprehensive audits of industrial property portfolios in order to identify risks, opportunities and priority actions. We also support due-diligence operations in connection with fundraising, acquisitions or partnerships.

The firm assists clients in drafting and negotiating contracts relating to industrial property: licences, assignments, coexistence agreements, confidentiality agreements and research contracts.

Finally, we contribute to the implementation of internal industrial-property policies and offer training and awareness sessions tailored to executive, marketing, R&D and design teams.

When a dispute arises, we support our clients with a strategic, pragmatic and results-oriented approach.

We act in the pre-litigation phase to analyse the situation, gather evidence, define the best strategy and attempt amicable resolution where possible. We assist our clients in administrative proceedings (oppositions, invalidity or revocation actions) as well as judicial litigation, in coordination with specialised lawyers.

The firm provides essential technical expertise in patent, trademark and design disputes, in particular for the analysis of infringement, validity of titles and scope of rights.

Our constant objective is to protect our clients' economic interests while keeping risks, deadlines and costs under control.