Advice and litigation in all matters of intellectual property: patent law, trademark law and industrial design law, as well as in unfair competition matters.

Most of Michèle Lesage-Catel’s activity over the last 25 years relates to intellectual property law, e.g. negotiation and drafting of IP contracts, as well as litigation concerning the ownership, validity or infringement of intellectual property rights.

Michèle Lesage-Catel is especially active in patent litigation. She represents both international and French corporate clients before the French courts. The cases that she handles relate to patents concerning the steel industry, mechanical engineering, household goods and electronics.

Michèle Lesage-Catel is also active in matters relating to the design, packaging and labelling of food products (wines and liquors, sugar, etc.).

1964–1980	Associate at law firm Chareyre, Paris
1980–1984	Independent attorney, Paris
1984–2009	Resident partner at Legrand Lesage-Catel, Paris
Since 2009	Of counsel at Bardehle Pagenberg Dost Altenburg Geissler, Paris

1963	Postgraduate degree (DES) in Civil Law, University of Paris IV
1964	Paris Bar Examination, admitted as attorney-at-law to the Paris Bar
1986	Postgraduate degree (DESS) in Industrial Property Law, University of Paris II
1994	Paris Bar Certificate of Specialization in Intellectual Property Law

French, English

*) Avocat au Barreau de Paris