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Germain Maureau Rennes
Established in the Brittany since 2021, 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.
Jean-Baptiste MILIEN, Head of Rennes 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 Great West area: Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Normandy.
Rennes Intellectual Property News
Find out what’s new in intellectual property in the Rennes area.
Ocean BtoB, the annual business convention around sea technologies open to companies from all maritime fields and the blue economy organised by the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique was held on 20 February.
On this occasion, Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes-Grand Ouest office (Germain Maureau), accompanied by Gwennina Croizer (Grand Port Maritime Nantes Saint Nazaire), Maximilien Le Menn ( Bretagne), Didier Arenal and Gaël Labat, (EHM – Efficient Hydrogen Motors), Adrien Chazelas and Frédéric Naudi (Lhyfe), led the workshop entitled “H2 New Port Market”.
We would like to thank the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique for hosting and organising this event.
We would also like to thank all the speakers who made valuable contributions to this workshop.
Le 19 décembre dernier, Jean-Baptiste MILIEN, Responsable du bureau Rennes-Grand Ouest, a eu le plaisir de donner un cours d’introduction à la Propriété Industrielle aux étudiants de 3e année, filière Ingénierie et Sciences de l’Entreprise (ISE) de l’ENSTA Bretagne à Brest.
Nous tenons à remercier l’ENSTA Bretagne, Khalil Assala et Maryline Besnard pour l’organisation et leur accueil et souhaitons une belle continuation à la promotion ISE 2024.
Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes-Grand Ouest office of Germain Maureau will attend Imagine Summit 2023 on 7 December at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.
The main theme of the 8th Imagine Summit will once again be “virtuous innovation”.
This event, which gathers the innovation and entrepreneurship community, is organised by Le Poool, Inria and Destination Rennes.
Feel free to contact us to make an appointment, either at the show or at our offices near the Couvent des Jacobins.
Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes-Grand-Ouest office, and Gaël Mancec, IT Lawyer, will attend the 8th European Cyber Week.
The European Cyber Week is the leading annual cyber security and cyber defense industry event in Europe. It gathers nearly 5,000 players in research, operational implementation and strategic thinking in the cybersecurity field.
The event will take place from 21 to 23 November 2023 at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.
Feel free to contact us to make an appointment, either at the show or at our offices near the Couvent des Jacobins.
In 2023, Germain Maureau joined the Valorial competitiveness cluster dedicated to the agricultural and agri-food field.
yesterday Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes office – at Germain & Maureau, took part in the La Matinale Valorial .
Jean-Baptiste Milien took the opportunity to talk to new members and present how Germain Maureau assists companies of the agri-food industry in implementing efficient strategies to protect their intellectual property assets.
We would like to thank Valorial for their warm welcome.
The Anticipa technology park and Germain Maureau are organising a webinar entitled: “How to protect your digital innovations and databases with a global IP strategy” on Tuesday 10 October 2023 from 11am to 12pm.
Digital tools and databases play an increasingly important role in our value chains. It is therefore important to optimise the protection of these innovations through a global industrial property (IP) strategy.
This webinar will provide an opportunity to focus on the various intellectual property rights and related rights: an adapted and combined approach to these rights will ensure effective protection of the various aspects of your digital innovations and secure the use of your databases.
This webinar will address some topics:
- Digital innovation: definition
- Main means of protection: secrecy, copyright, patent
- Databases: a dedicated protection
- Complementary protection: trademarks, designs, domain names
This webinar will be led by Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of Rennes – Grand Ouest Office and Patent Attorney at Germain Maureau.
Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes office – at Germain Maureau, will be taking part in the Breton Economic Forum in Saint-Malo.
This event, recognised as one of the major B2B professional events in France, gathers all the influential economic players in the Brittany region.
The main theme of this fourth edition of the forum is the reinvention of models for regenerative growth, reflecting Germain Maureau’s commitment to a sustainable and innovative approach.
Please do not hesitate to contact us to meet us.
Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes-Grand Ouest office of Germain Maureau, attended the Blue Connection event organized by the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique (Sea Pole of Brittany) on 29th June.
The event took place at the Atlantic Maritime Prefecture in Brest.
During the Blue Connection, Germain Maureau and other partners of the Pole had the opportunity to get acquainted with the missions of CENTOPS (Naval Operational Center) and to discuss with officers from the AEM division (State Action at Sea).
At the end of the day, the partners had the privilege of attending an exceptional visit to FREMM NORMANDIE.
Many thanks to the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, the Ministry of Armed Forces, and the French Navy for their warm welcome and hospitality.
For more information, click here.
Discover how to make of your industrial property (IP) policy a source of savings and profits.
Throughout the life of your start-up, VSE or SME, an adapted IP strategy will allow you to control potential economic and legal risks and to protect your market.
Germain Maureau invites you on Tuesday 20 June 2023 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm to the meetup “Industrial Property: a leverage for growth and development” , which will take place at the Mabilay in Rennes.
It will be led by Jean-Baptiste Milien, Head of the Rennes Office and Patent Attorney at Germain Maureau.
Our IP focus will offer you an overview and give you the right reflexes to effectively position yourself on your market and preserve your intangible assets:
- When should you check your competitors’ IP strategy?
- When should you reserve a domain name, file a trademark or patent application?
- What budget should be dedicated to this?
- What will be the economic value of your domain names, trademarks or patents?
To sign up for free, please send an email to: communication@germainmaureau.com.
This event is open to everyone, you may come with someone.
Germain Maureau is proud to be part of this dynamic and innovative community gathering large companies, SMEs, research centres and training centers, professional organisations and economic development structures that share the same vision of the importance of the sea in our common future.
The main mission of Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique is to develop a competitive maritime economy by stimulating and promoting innovation.
This strategic decision to join this club allows Germain Maureau to be closer to the key players in the maritime sector in the Brittany and Loire regions.
The potential of the sea is huge, with opportunities in areas such as renewable energy, sustainable fisheries, marine biotechnology, maritime surveillance and security, among others.
The breakfast on the topic of digital innovations and databases took place this morning.
We would like to thank you for taking part and for your quality exchange which made this moment particularly interesting.
We also thank the Balthazar Hotel for their hospitality and their organisation.
Our experts Isabelle Hegedus, Jean-Baptiste Milien, and Matthieu Objois would be happy to answer any further questions.
Que vous soyez une start-up, une PME, une ETI ou un grand groupe, acteur dans un secteur de haute technologie ou plus traditionnel, les outils numériques et les données s’invitent toujours plus dans nos chaines de valeurs.
Germain Maureau vous invite à un petit-déjeuner le jeudi 30 mars 2023 à l’hôtel Balthazar, à Rennes, qui sera l’occasion pour nos experts Isabelle Hegedus Associée et Conseil en Propriété Industrielle Marques, Dessins et Modèles, Jean-Baptiste Milien, Responsable du Bureau de Rennes et Conseil en Propriété Industrielle Brevets et Matthieu Objois, Conseil en Propriété Industrielle Brevets et Expert Logiciel et Intelligence Artificielle, de faire un point sur les différents droits de propriété intellectuelle et droits connexes : une articulation adaptée de ces droits permet de bien protéger et défendre vos innovations et sécuriser l’utilisation de vos bases de données.
Déroulé du petit-déjeuner :
- 9h15 – 9h45 : Accueil et petit-déjeuner de bienvenue
- 9h45 – 11h00 : Présentation “Innovations numériques et bases de données : Développez votre stratégie PI”
- 11h00 – 11h30 : Questions / Réponses et temps d’échange
Pour vous inscrire au petit-déjeuner “Innovations numériques et bases de données : développez votre stratégie PI” envoyez un email à : communicationgermainmaureau.com
As part of its development, and to provide a local service to companies in the Great West, Germain Maureau is opening a new office, the 7th one in France.
Located near the historic center of the city of Rennes, this office is managed by Jean-Baptiste MILIEN who has a solid experience of almost 15 years in the Industrial Property sector.
This new location shows the firm’s desire to be present in one of the most dynamic areas in France in terms of innovation and to support companies in all intellectual property procedures (patents, trademarks, drawings and designs, domain names, etc.)