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Germain Maureau Bordeaux
Established in the New Aquitaine since 2020, Germain Maureau is a leading intellectual property law firm in Europe. If you are interested in protecting your intellectual property and/or would like to hear more about the services that we provide, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Marie MOTHES, Head of Bordeaux Office ✉
Our Expertise
Germain Maureau supports its clients from the inception of their projects. Our firm ensures a global approach to securing intellectual property — utilizing legal, scientific, and administrative expertise.
A patent is a crucial tool for protecting your technology. It allows you to capitalize on your investment in R&D, through a grant of a 20-year monopoly on your technology.
A trademark is a powerful symbol for your customers. A dynamic brand management strategy relies on an all-encompassing approach.
A design relates to an appearance of a product – shapes, contours, decorative and ornamental patterns, icons, and graphic interfaces.
Originally a technical consideration, a domain name is now the digital counterpart of your brand, which allows the public to identify and authenticate you on the Internet.
Involvement
Germain Maureau collaborates with key players in innovation in the Bordeaux area.
Bordeaux Intellectual Property News
Find out what’s new in intellectual property in the Bordeaux area.
Marie MOTHES, Head of the Bordeaux Office at Germain Maureau, will be leading an intellectual property training course dedicated to project leaders of the project French Tech Tremplin supported by Arc Sud Développement, the project’s incubator partner.
The aim of the French Tech Tremplin programme is to help entrepreneurs who are under-represented in the ecosystem to create and launch their start-ups.
This training course will take place on Monday 5 February in the premises of the business incubator, Arc Sud Développement.
Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office of Germain Maureau, will participate in the Bordeaux Tech’Day organized by Bordeaux Technowest.
“Bordeaux Tech’Day” is a friendly, free event for professionals, to learn and relearn about the opportunities offered by entrepreneurs supported by the technopole, through their new technologies.
For more information and registration, click here.
On Tuesday 4 July 2023, three of our people, Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office, Gaël MANCEC, NICT lawyer and Laurence ROYER, French & European Patent Attorney, will be present at the Rocher de Palmer in Cenon for the new edition of “Signaux – Start-up Day” organized by UNITEC, the main incubator in the Bordeaux region.
This unmissable event in the regional tech ecosystem and innovation will combine business meetings, conferences and networking.
Personalised meetings with start-ups will be proposed.
If you need any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us and click here to register.
On Tuesday 4 April 2023, we had the pleasure to welcome our clients and partners for the inauguration of our new offices in Bordeaux.
We thank them for coming in large number and share this moment of conviviality with the Bordeaux team of Germain Maureau.
On Tuesday, 28 February at 6:30 p.m., Marie Mothes, Head of the Bordeaux office and Industrial Property Attorney, and Alexandre Bertin, Monitoring and Prospective Manager at Unitec, will present the conference “NFTs, practical vision and legal vision” organized by Aquinum, the association of digital professionals in Aquitaine.
The following topics will be addressed during the conference:
- What is a NFT in practice?
- Is the legal definition the same?
- Some use cases of NFTs
- What are the Intellectual Property rights of the purchaser and author of NFTs?
- What precautions should be taken before buying a NFT with regard to Intellectual Property rights?
- Focus on the 1st case-law “Metabirkin”. Find our article in this regard.
- Is the “smart contract” a contract?
The Bordeaux team of GERMAIN MAUREAU is pleased to announce its move into new spacious offices, located in the city center of Bordeaux, at 137 Cours Victor Hugo (next to the Museum of Aquitaine).
The purpose of this move is to continue our development in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region.
Our team hopes to welcome you very soon.
Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office of Germain Maureau, will participate in the Vinitech Sifel event from 29 November to 1st December 2022.
Germain Maureau assists many actors of the wine and spirit industry with the Intellectual Property protection of their innovations and creations.
This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss issues in the wine field and answer all your questions regarding patents, trademarks, industrial designs, domain names…
Marie Mothes, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office of Germain Maureau, will lead a workshop on the theme of good practices to protect your trademark and your creations, on 3 November 2022 from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Le Kocon, a coworking space, located in an exceptional place in Bordeaux : la Villa Maria.
On Monday 3 October at 6 p.m., Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office will speak at the Dynabuy business club in Langon, in the Bordeaux aera, on the theme of “Intellectual property at the service of business” and will answer questions from leaders on this topic.
If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
On Monday 19 September 2022, three of our people, Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Head of the Bordeaux office, Gaël MANCEC, NICT lawyer and Charles DESCAZEAUX, French & European Patent Attorney, will be present at the Rocher de Palmer in Cenon for the new edition of “Signaux – Start-up Day” organized by UNITEC, the main incubator in the Bordeaux region.
This unmissable event in the regional tech ecosystem and innovation will combine business meetings, conferences and networking.
Personalised meetings with start-ups will be proposed.
Like last year, two of our employees, Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney and Gaël MANCEC, NTIC lawyer, will have the pleasure of speaking during the theme lunch of Agropole companies on 8 September near Agen.
During this training entitled “Intellectual property and agri-food”, Marie MOTHES and Gaël MANCEC will deal with the following subjects:
– What rights for what protection?
– The issue of recipes.
– Practical cases applied to agri-food products: cooked dish, yoghurt and beverages
– Good reflexes, good practices and traps to avoid.
“Bordeaux Tech’Day” is a friendly, free event for professionals, to learn and relearn about the opportunities offered by entrepreneurs supported by the technopole, through their new technologies.
This fourth edition expects more than 600 participants, 80 exhibiting start-ups and will be opened to the public in the Hôtel de la Métropole at 9am.
On next Thursday, 19 May at 6:30 p.m., Marie MOTHES, Industrial Property Attorney at Germain Maureau, will speak during the round table: “Digital in all its forms: NFTs: monkey money?” organised by Aquinum, the association of digital professionals in Aquitaine.
Agenda of the evening:
- What are NFTs and how they work in the blockchain? What use? Why are they a future technology?
- Where can you post and buy NFTs? What are the profiles of the artists who create NFTs? Focus on NFTs in the art world.
- NFTs and Intellectual Property: questions and vigilance issues.
On Monday 14 March, three of our Associates, Marie MOTHES, Henri Bourgeois and Gaël MANCEC will have the pleasure of speaking at the Development and Innovation Agency in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
This training dedicated to the project managers of the Agency will focus on the protection of innovations by Intellectual Property.