About US

  • ACTIVITIES
  • MISSIONS
  • HISTORY

Activities

Fédit-Loriot is a Patent and Trademark Firm, serving a diverse domestic and international clientele in Europe, Japan, China, Korea and the United States. Our practice covers various areas of intellectual property laws including patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs and domain names. Our attorneys have extensive experience and expertise in patent and trademark prosecution; oral proceedings; oppositions; litigations; patentability, non infringement, validity and freedom-to-practice analyses; licensing; valuation of intellectual property rights; due diligence.


Our attorneys practice in French, English, Japanese and German in a wide range of technical areas including electronics, physics, mechanics, chemistry, biochemistry, telecommunications, computers, aeronautics, optics, automobile, petroleum engineering, metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, polymeric materials, ceramics.


Our firm’s multinational team currently includes 7 attorneys and patent specialists and 6 administrative/paralegal staff, all working closely with the clients. Our commitment is to provide high quality services to our clients for protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights, with maximum benefit at minimum cost for our clients. To provide our services efficiently, we continually keep pace with the new technologies and evolutions in IP laws worldwide.


Our Firm provides secured online services to its clients, including cost-reduced filing at the INPI, EPO, OHIM and WIPO, fee payments, electronic transmittal of communications, office actions and other documents.

Missions

Our missions for protecting our clients' intellectual property assets include:
- prosecution of our clients' patents, trademarks, copyrights, industrial designs and domain names, before the French National Intellectual Property Institute (INPI), European Patent Office (EPO), Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and other national IP offices through our carefully selected local firms ;
- oppositions, appeals, oral proceedings, before the INPI, EPO, OHIM and abroad, through our carefully selected local firms;
- litigation: close collaboration with carefully selected lawyer(s) and clients' in-house counsels and technical staff from initial decision to litigate to trial and appeal, coordination of litigation occurring on a worldwide basis;
- licensing and technology transfers;
-assisting our clients to develop and manage an appropriate and cost-effective intellectual property portfolio;
- setting up a patent or trademark watch process for monitoring newly issued patents or trademarks on a periodic basis;
- audit of intellectual property portfolios;

History

The firm was founded in 1940 by André Guerbilsky, a French patent attorney. René Fédit and Jacques Loriot who j.oined the firm respectively in 1957 and 1960, restructured and developed the firm which now takes their name.