Frank Valentin

Individual Rankings :

Frank is regularly ranked by Best Lawyers, Chambers, Legal 500, IP Stars, IamTrademark, Who's Who Legal, World Trademark Review, IAM Patent 1000, Media Law International.

• Chambers Europe – Band 4 – Intellectual Property: Trade Mark & Copyright – 2024
• Legal 500 – Leading Individual – Intellectual Property : Trade Mark & Design – 2024
• Best Lawyers-Advertising Law; Entertainment Law; Information Technology Law; Intellectual Property Law; Media Law; Privacy and Data Security Law; Technology Law – 2010-25
• Managing IP Awards 2024 EMEA – Impact Case of the Year

Teams Rankings :

• Chambers Europe – Band 1 – TMT – 2024
• Legal 500 – Tier 1 – Intellectual Property : Trade Mark & Design – 2024
• Legal 500 – Tier 3 – Intellectual Property : Copyright – 2024
• Legal 500 – Tier 4 – Intellectual Property : Patents – 2024

Podcast series on Patent litigation:

• Episode 4 - Enforcement of UPC decisions, 23 September 2022
• Episode 3 - How to choose the right court, 26 August 2022

Regular publications on intellectual property, media and information technology issues, including:

• “Future revolutions in the financing of French cinema, Jean-Jacques Manceau, Journalist“, Forbes France, November 2020
• “The film industry since the post-lockdown era: flashbacks and prospects”, Dalloz Actualités, October 2020
• “Coronavirus and cinema: murky scenario“, Dalloz, May 2020
• “The media chronology, collateral victim of the coronavirus?”, L'Opinion, April 2020
• “The media chronology”, CBNews, April 2020
• “Chronology of the media: Crossed views France and the United States in the aftermath of the adoption of the emergency law”, Le Monde du Droit, April 2020
• Collaboration with the French Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes) on the public report about “Fight against counterfeiting” published on March 3, 2020 (proposed courses of action aiming at strengthening the rights of consumers and IP rights owners) ("La lutte contre les contrefaçons | Cour des comptes (ccomptes.fr)", ).
• “Progress and dangers of the digitalisation of justice for its actors”, L’Agefi Hebdo, February 2020

 

Frank Valentin was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1998, graduated with a DESS (post-graduate degree) in Intellectual Property and New Technologies Law and obtained 2 Mention of specialisation from the Paris Bar in New Technologies, Information Technology and Communication Law. Before joining DLA, Frank Valentin was successively a partner in two highly reputed French law firms. He notably co-founded one of them before being in charge for more than 15 years of the development of the intellectual property law practice, a development that he also carried out in his most recent experience, with a strong international trend.

• INTA (International Trademark Association) - Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee
• IBA (International Bar Association) – Media Law Committee; Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Committee
• AIPPI (Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle) IT & Internet Standing Committee
• APRAM (Association des Praticiens Marques Modèles)
• MARQUES (Association of European Trademark Owners)
• AAPI (Association des Avocats de Propriété Industrielle)
• APEB (Association des Praticiens Européens des Brevets)