Abello IP Firm

Number of partners: 8

Number of lawyers: 8

Languages: English, French, German

Firm Overview:

A century-long history in Intellectual Property.

To this day, Abello IP Firm remains faithful to the historical values of its predecessors: avant-gardism, high technicality and mixed profiles. The firm has built its added value on a strong and virtuous internal collaboration between scientists and lawyers.

At Abello IP Firm, the ambition is to create true ‘lawyer-engineers’: professionals capable of understanding and grasping both the technical and legal issues at stake, in order to provide the best possible support to its clients. Today, this ambition is bearing fruit: a key position in the field of intellectual property and recognition by the firm’s peers for its technical precision and the high quality of its support.

Abello IP Firm assists companies both in the management of their intangible assets and in their contractual and litigation relations, particularly in the areas of patents, trademarks, models, copyright and trade secrets.

With offices in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (South East France), the Abello IP Group has a staff of around 30 employees, including 18 professional lawyers, patent attorneys, legal experts and engineers.

Benefiting from a strong international dimension focused on Europe and Asia, Abello IP Firm offers legal support to its clients thanks to its South Korea Desk and the UPCLA EEIG (United Patent Cooperation Lawyers and Attorneys), which brings together some of the most reputable European patent law firms and patent attorneys in Europe.

Main Areas of Practice:

Litigation:

5 partners

Abello IP Firm is a historical player in intellectual property litigation. Under the leadership of Michel Abello, the firm is unanimously acknowledged by its clients and peers for its judicial successes and litigation strategies, combining scientific technicality, cross-disciplinary skills and tactical boldness.

Counseling:

4 partners

Abello IP Firm advises its clients on all their intellectual property issues, covering the fields of patents, trademarks & designs, as well as contractual issues. Thanks to its dual culture as a lawyer-engineer and its in-depth know-how in litigation, Abello IP offers its clients adequate protection and enhancement regarding the full range of their intangible assets.

Abello IP’s ambition is to cover the three main technical fields of Telecom/IT, mechanics and life sciences while offering its clients a new offer structured around two main areas of support in the protection and enhancement of intangible assets:

Solutions Abello IP: A complete range of ready-to-use IP support solutions that can be customised and combined according to the company’s needs : IP policies, IP Audit, Invention detection mission, financial valuation of IP assets, training programs.

Focus Abello IP : The firm’s methodologies and in-depth expertise on several themes notably employees inventions litigation, FRAND negotiation strategies, counterfeit seizure.