Our team
Françoise CORMIER REISS founded the Law firm Cabinet Cormier Reiss in February 2009, after a successful experience of more than 20 years in a major industrial company, in private practice in one of the biggest European Industrial Property Attorney firm, and in a Law firm specialized in the protection of luxury products, perfumery, fashion and pharmaceuticals. The Law firm Cormier Reiss & Associes was incorporated in 2012, in association with Schmit Chretien IP Attorneys. Titles
- Industrial Property Attorney recorded since 1993
- European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
- Selected as member of the Panel of Neutrals of the International Trademark Association
- Master degree in Industrial Property Law from the Paris II University Pantheon Assas
- Master in Corporate and business Law -ESA - IAE Grenoble - UPMF
- French, English, German
Françoise CORMIER REISS belongs to various professional associations, amongst which :
- l'APRAM (Association of legal practitioners of Trademarks and Design Law),
- l'ECTA (European Community Trademark Association),
- l'INTA (International Trademark Association),
- l'AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
- l'Association Nationale des Médiateurs (French association of Neutrals)
We audit the existing rights, and work to define and implement a strategy to protect and defend the intellectual property rights of
our clients, both in France and worldwide. This approach is tailored to the budget of clients, and to its field of business.
After consolidating the intellectual property rights, our office negotiates license and assignment agreements with third parties,
and monitors an effective anti-counterfeiting survey, especially with the Customs authorities.
Georges CORNUEJOLS, Partner
Titles:
- French and European Patent Attorney.
- Graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris Engineering School.
Experience:
- 1988-1999: Patent Engineer then Patent Attorney in top-tier French industrial property law firms. Managed the patent portfolio of France's first patent applicant.
- 1999-2001: Patent Engineer in Washington D.C at Oliff & Berridge law firm. Wrote patent applications and responses to official letters. Oral procedures at the USPTO.
- Since 2001: Independent Patent Attorney then CEO of Schmit-Chretien SAS. Patent procedure quality manager.
Skills - Specialties:
- Patent law: patent portfolio constitution, consolidation and value-enhancement strategy; opposition procedures, pre-litigation and litigation in France and abroad; co-ownership, consortium, licensing and transfer contracts.
- Patent advisor: Motivation of inventor employees, search of prior art, writing of patent applications, official letters response, follow-up of examination procedure in France and abroad, writing of statement stating out the grounds of opposition.
- Personal Technical specialties: Electronics, Telecommunications, Optics, Mechanics and software.
- Other technical specialties of the firm: Chemistry, Biology, Nanostructures, Automation.
Pascale MOTTET, Partner
Titles:
- Industrial Property Attorney recorded since 1997
- European Trade Mark and Design Attorney
- Master degree in contracts and Industrial Property Law - Strasbourg university
- Master in international business Law - Paris University
- Master in foreign languages (English, Spanish)
- French, English, Spanish
Experience:
- Mai 1992 / 1995:
Lawyer in a Law Firm specialized in Intellectual property - 1995-2009:
IP Attorney in various IP Attorney firms. - Since 2009:
Trademark and Design Attorney
Manager of the IP Attorney firm Cabinet MOTTET & Associes
Partner of Cormier Reiss & Associés
Pascale Mottet belongs to various professional associations, amongst which :
- l'APRAM (Association of legal practitioners of Trademarks and Design Law),
- l'INTA (International Trademark Association),
- l'AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property),
- ASIPI (Inter-American Association of Intellectual Property)