Marianne Schaffner
France
Reed Smith LLP
112 Avenue Kléber
Paris, 75116
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 76 70 40 38
Email:
mschaffner@reedsmith.com
Web:
www.reedsmith.com
Marianne Schaffner is a partner in the Paris office of Reed Smith. She heads the Intellectual Property team in Paris and the Patent practice in Europe.
Marianne is a well-known intellectual property lawyer. She is recognized for coordinating and managing complex national and transnational patent, trade secrets and trademark disputes in the healthcare, chemistry, technology and telecommunications sectors. She acts before the French and European offices (EUIPO, INPI, EPO) and courts in Europe.
She assists clients in negotiating intellectual property agreements, in defining employees’ inventions compensation policies and in evaluating their IP portfolios to strengthen their position in mergers and acquisitions, LBOs, financing transactions and initial public offerings. Marianne regularly advises on IP prosecution, portfolio management and define with her clients global protection strategies .
Having studied and worked in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, she has extensive knowledge of both the European and American judicial systems. Marianne Schaffner is repeatedly ranked by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe, IAM, Legal 500 EMEA, Décideurs, Stratégie Finance Droit, Who’s Who France, and MIP.
Marianne is a lecturer in the Master 2 of Intellectual Property Law of University Paris, Politecnico di Milan and also teaches at the Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris (Paris Bar School). She has trained the technically qualified judges of the upcoming Unified patent court.
Finally, she is co-chair of a group made up with 8 IP associations and the Paris bar working together with the IP judges of the Paris judicial court to improve the French procedure and to raise the Paris attractiveness for litigation.
Education
- Université Paris II – Panthéon – Assas, Paris, 1995, D.E.S.S., Intellectual Property Law
- Université Paris II – Panthéon – Assas, Paris, 1994, DEA, Community Law
- Université Paris II – Panthéon – Assas, Paris, 1993, Master, Corporate and German Law (Programme with Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich)
- Assisting and representing a biotech startup on a multiple contract and patent disputes in France and in Belgium.
- Advising and representing an American FinTech on a significant trademark litigation that is likely to prevent its penetration of the European market.
- Assisting and representing a pharmaceutical laboratory on a patent litigation on an innovative and breakthrough technology.
- Assisting and representing an American pharmaceutical company on a patent infringement related to a nicotinic substitute.
- Assisting and representing a world leader of construction on a patent infringement dispute.
- Assisting and representing a world leader of diabetes treatment on a cross-border patent revocation action filled by a generic drug manufacturer.
- Assisting and representing a Japanese pharmaceutical company on a cross-border patent revocation action filled by a generic drug manufacturer.
- Representing and advising an online video games company on brand oppositions in France, the US and in Latin America.
- Representing and advising a French luxury company on the largest trademark dispute in France. Coordination of the legal proceedings in China.
- Assisting and representing a world leader of diabetes treatment on a cross-border patent revocation action filled by a generic drug manufacturer.
- Assisting and representing a Japanese pharmaceutical company on a cross-border patent revocation action filled by a generic drug manufacturer.
- Representing and advising an online video games company on brand oppositions in France, the US and in Latin America.
- Representing and advising a French luxury company on the largest trademark dispute in France. Coordination of the legal proceedings in China.
- Member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- Member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
- Member of the Association of Intellectual Property Lawyers (AAPI)
- Member of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
- Member of the Association of Practitioners of European Patents (APEB)
- Member of the International Trademark Association (INTA)
- Member of the Pharmaceutical Trade Marks Group (PTMG)
- Chairwoman of the Regulated Sectors Committee of APRAM.
- Member of the Licensing Executive Society (LES)
Intellectual Property (IP) is the linchpin propelling innovation and ideas forward. We work to maximize and protect the value of your IP and represent you in legal proceedings where needed, all the while ensuring your business can continue to grow and develop.
Your business benefits from our deep trial experience in all IP areas concerning patents, copyrights, trademarks, unfair competition and trade secrets, transactions, and arbitration. Given the inherently global nature of intellectual property issues, we can provide you with transatlantic support, coordinating on matters seamlessly across jurisdictions and across the full IP spectrum.
We have significant experience devising (and helping our clients to implement) global IP strategies, having advised clients on such matters across key industry sectors, including Entertainment & Media, Energy & Natural Resources, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Transportation, among others.
We are also experienced in advising clients on how best to prioritize their IP objectives, ensuring that they can achieve optimal outcomes based on their available budget. Our advice encompasses advising on how to mitigate IP risk and whether, in any instance, the best strategy is to pursue registered IP rights (e.g. patents and registered trademarks) or to rely on unregistered rights (e.g. trade secrets and unregistered trademarks). This is a complex, nuanced and context-specific area, which requires a joined-up approach. That’s where we step in.
At Reed Smith, everything we do is to apply our global experience in law to drive progress for our clients, for ourselves and for our communities. We are focused on outcomes, are highly collaborative and have deep industry insight. When combined with our local market knowledge and innovative mindset, this allows us to anticipate and address the needs of our clients and help them achieve their goals.
Our team of 3,000 people (including more than 1,700 lawyers) operate across 31 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
From the time of its opening in 2005, our Paris office has expanded and solidified a reputation for excellence in both the French capital and the broader European market. We have garnered international recognition for our entrepreneurial attitude and knowledge of the French legal system, relevant authorities and regulations, and key economic players.
Our driven Parisian lawyers are respected practitioners in their fields, serving French and international enterprises, investment funds, financial institutions and multinational corporations in manufacturing and shipping, among many other industries.
“Marianne often assists clients from the technology, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors with patent litigation and infringement claims. Clients say: “She is very insightful and knowledgeable about pan-European patent law and is able to identify weaknesses in a case quickly and find ways to address them.“