Our Expertise
Wines & Spirits
Thanks to our cross-disciplinary expertise in trademark law and wine and spirits law, our teams are able to support businesses in the wine industry and help them to improve the management of their trademarks.
MIIP supports you in your reflexion on the protection and defense of your rights:
- Definition of the protection and defence strategy of the wine brand: availability and compliance of the chosen name, etc.
- Advice in your dealings with administrative bodies and control services.
- Legal validation of labelling and packaging, monitoring compliance with labelling regulations and protection of your distinctive features.
- In foreign markets, securing your contractual relationships with your importers and distributors.
- Checking your marketing projects before the final project is validated, under the Evin Act.
- Dispute management: negotiations, opposition, appeals to French and foreign authorities.
We are fully aware of business needs and we strive to advise our clients on their sales and marketing strategy. Our excellent relations with operators in the wine industry allow us to overcome market constraints and to keep a close watch on market trends.
This close relationship means that we are able to listen and respond quickly to our clients and to tailor our services to them. We pride ourselves on being immediately available if urgent problems arise but we also meet with our clients on a regular basis to put forward solutions for improving their protection and encouraging their growth:
- Easing your relations with the authorities
- Improving the protection of your trademarks
- Approving your labelling and packaging
- Increasing the value of your assets
- Promoting your business growth
- Securing your marketing activities
- Protecting your Château name
The team includes highly experienced lawyers in intellectual property and wine law, IP lawyers with specialist qualifications in wine law, and one IP lawyer who is the son of a wine grower.
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Our teams are at your disposal to answer all your questions relating to our services and solutions.
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Our approach to disputes
We focus on resolving disputes amicably thus avoiding opposition costs.
Training Courses and Workshops
Made In IP's IP lawyers are experienced in their business and offer training courses and workshops on intellectual property law and digital law to both existing and prospective clients.
IT & Digital
Our expertise in Intellectual Property and NICT helps you to fulfil your IT projects
Optimisation & Tax Strategy
Thanks to our legal expertise in trademarks and domain names, we devise and implement strategies to optimize, manage and protect the value of these industrial property rights.
Franchising & Retail
Made in IP has over 25 years of expertise in the retail and distribution sector. We have a dedicated team ready and able to support retailers in the protection and leveraging of their industrial property assets.
Wines & Spirits
Thanks to our cross-disciplinary expertise in trademark law and wine and spirits law, our teams are able to support businesses in the wine industry and help them to improve the management of their trademarks.
Filing tools and processes
Given that we operate in a very specific and specialist field, we made the strategic investment decision to create and develop our own in-house business software. SHERPA IP, certified in 2011 by the French Ministry of Research, helps make our teams more efficient and raises the quality of service offered to our clients.