Adeline Laukas

Adeline Laukas specialises in trademark and design protection in France, the EU and internationally, and focuses on IP registration and maintenance strategy including availability searches, legal compliance, refusals, audits, prior rights purchases, coexistence and trademark portfolio management. 

Adeline also advises clients on pre-litigation and litigation (offensive and defensive). Her work includes cease and desist letters, watches, opposition actions, invalidation and revocation actions, domain name disputes. 

Furthermore, she has extensive experience providing advice to clients in France and abroad in a wide range of business sectors, in counterfeiting and unfair competition matters, amicable settlement negotiations, as well as on contracts. 

Career history

Adeline studied general Private Law at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord University, with a specialisation in Intellectual Property and Information/Communication Technologies. She also completed a Master 2 in Intellectual Property and Design Law at the University Lumières Lyon 2. 

Adeline started her career working at a Parisian IP law firm in 2016, where she worked for seven years: four years as an IP lawyer and three years as an IP attorney, for clients in a large range of industries including pharmaceutical laboratories and medical devices, cosmetics, fashion and jewelry designers, department stores, banks, champagnes, wines and spirits. 

She qualified as a Trademark and Design Attorney in 2020 and joined Novagraaf in 2023. 

Memberships

Adeline est membre de l’APRAM (Association des Praticiens du droit des marques et des modèles)

Languages

• French
• English

Areas of expertise

• Copyright, Designs
• Trademarks, Domain names
• Geographical indications
• Unfair competition, Contracts

Industry specialisms

• Copyright
• Designs
• Trademarks & Domain Names
• Strategy
• agroalimentaire
• Cosmetics & personal care
• Emerging technologies
• Fashion & textiles
• Luxury goods
• Pharmacie
• Online brand protection
• Telecommunications