France

Firm overview

Withers & Rogers is one of Europe’s largest dedicated intellectual property law firms, with offices across the UK, Paris and Munich. Established more than 130 years ago, we remain as passionate as ever about making intellectual property work to our clients’ best advantage. Today, our clients include many renowned, innovative organisations from across Europe, North America and Asia.

Withers & Rogers has a breadth and depth of experience and expertise that we believe is second to none. In addition to our practice groups, we have a number of specialist groups, enabling us to pool our industry knowledge and bring added value for our clients.

We offer a comprehensive service that extends to both securing IP rights – such as patents, trade mark and design registrations for the UK, Europe and further afield – and advising on their exploitation and enforcement. Alongside, we provide proactive support functions that help our clients keep track of their IP, stay on top of its maintenance, and stay in control of cost.

Recognition of the long-term, strategic importance of IP is growing apace, and to help our clients make the most of their creativity, we can build strategies that embrace critical areas like innovation culture, due diligence, freedom to operate, invention management, and patent mapping, to name but a few.

All of our patent and trade mark attorneys are selected on the basis of excellent academic achievement and industry knowledge. This ensures our clients receive a service that delivers both technical excellence and commercial insight.

Firm overview

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer (HSF Kramer) was formed in June 2025 through the transformational combination of Herbert Smith Freehills and Kramer Levin, creating a world-leading global law firm. With over 6,000 people including c.2700 lawyers and spanning 26 offices, HSF Kramer provides comprehensive legal services across every major region of the world. Uniquely positioned to help clients achieve ambitious objectives, HSF Kramer delivers exceptional results in complex transactions and high-stakes disputes.

Our lawyers help the world's foremost companies unlock the value of their IP to protect their investments, secure and maintain competitive advantage and obtain commercial outcomes. Our teams are internationally recognised as market leaders and have acted on some of the most complex disputes and transactions for our clients.

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Firm overview

Marks & Clerk is one of the UK’s largest, and longest established, intellectual property firms. Our expert teams of patent and trade mark attorneys and lawyers are wired directly into the UK’s innovation economies via our offices in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen. Alongside our presence in the UK, we also have offices in nine international locations covering the EU, Canada and Asia, meaning we can tap into local expertise, globally. 

Our team provides a full-service IP offering, from the initial filing of IP, through to litigation and commercial exploitation. Having seen the benefits that our clients derive from our full-service model, a number of patent attorney firms have since sought to follow a similar approach by adding solicitors to their teams. However, our well-established and highly regarded litigation and commercial transactions practices continue to set us apart from other firms.

We are experts not only in intellectual property law, but also in the science and technology that underpins our clients’ businesses. Our ability to draw upon this specialist technical expertise, not just in the context of patent prosecution but also in the context of litigation and commercial transactions, enables us to provide clients with a level of service and reach unmatched by other firms.

Firm overview

TMark Conseils specializes in European and French intellectual property law and is a member of the French National Association of IP Attorneys (CNCPI). The firm was founded in 1993 on the shared belief in focusing on meeting the client’s special needs and expectations. Today, Tmark Conseils team of 25 members of staff and 5 partners are all committed to delivering first-class services that are tailored to each client’s particular requirements, budgets and timelines regardless of whether the client is a large multinational company a medium size operator, a start-up or an individual business person.

Areas of Expertise

• IP strategy definition and development
• Filing and prosecution of trade mark, design, domain names applications, renewals
• Trademark oppositions before INPI, EUIPO (and internationally), UDRP proceedings
• Drafting and negotiating IP agreements (assignment, license, coexistence…)
• Enforcement and protection of IP rights
• IP Cross boarder litigations
• Brand protection (Customs watch and judicial proceedings) 
• Audit, due diligence and assessment of portfolios of all types of IP rights.

International IP Networks and Experience
Tmark Conseils works both in France, before EUIPO and internationally. Tmark Conseils closely collaborates with a worldwide network of IP firms chosen because of their high level of expertise, responsiveness, cost efficiency services and involvement. Tmark Conseils is very active in cross boarder IP litigations.

Guidance, Support and Clearance
Tmark Conseils staff accompanies their clients in order to fully protect their IP rights at the national, European and international levels.

Tmark Conseils identifies and defines all available and appropriate strategies and solutions while being mindful of the client’s special interests and advises on protective measures and actions available both nationally at the European level and worldwide tailored to meet the technical, commercial and financial aspects and issues at hand.

The firm’s specific knowledge of procedural and administrative aspects of all IP-related matters in particular at the EUIPO level allows Tmark Conseils’s team of experts to deliver high-end support both in securing, maintaining and exploiting the client’s rights and setting up defensive arguments.

Network Memberships: INTA, ECTA, APRAM, CEIPI