Students and Graduates

IPMT Traineeship

We offer remunerated traineeships between 3 and 6 months and the opportunity to work with a legal team that consists of 11 lawyers and trade mark attorneys who, assisted by over 14 paralegals, advise major multi-national companies on brand strategies in the European Union and elsewhere and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation.

We entrust our trainees with various tasks related to European Union trademarks ("EUTM"), including:

• Drafting submissions for filling in proceedings before the European Intellectual Property Office ("EUIPO"), including opposition briefs, submissions in cancellation actions, and observations in reply to proof of use.
• Preparing business-to-business letters, pre-opposition letters and cease and desist letters.
• Drafting trade mark co-existence and settlement agreements.
• Gathering, reviewing, updating and summarizing evidence of use and use of reputation for EUTM oppositions and cancellation actions.
• Drafting affidavits to present evidence of use and reputation in EUTM opposition and cancellation proceedings.
• Preparing claims for reimbursement of costs incurred for proceedings before the General Court.
• Drafting an arbitration clause, based on the WIPO model clauses, to be used in undertakings for trade mark issues.