MARS - IP
Boutique law firm in intellectual property, communications and new technologies law.
Because the world is changing thanks to the creators, authors, developers, their images, videos, texts, inventions and their brilliant ideas, and their work.
Because their publishers, producers, laboratories, users, clients and investors believe in them, invest, sponsor, buy and sell.
Because the Law makes it possible to protect, exploit, defend and value all these inventions and creations, and to combine the interests of each individual and their private life. We advise you.
Because IP/IT law has long since ceased to be solely national, and because creators and inventors are mobile.
Because we are also European at heart with a personal and professional French-German base.
And because we like to advise, accompany, defend and develop our clients' business beyond borders.
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MARS-IP strengthens its expertise in French-German law with the arrival of a new associate.
MARS-IP is pleased to announce the arrival of Maël Strahmann, German lawyer and Rechtsanwalt, as new associate. Perfectly trilingual and with a solid background in French and German law, he will strengthen the law firm's cross-border practice, particularly in supporting companies operating in Germany.
With dual French and German nationality and intercultural sensitivity, Maël Strahmann has rare legal and linguistic skills. His perfect command of cross-border issues makes him a privileged contact for our clients. With his arrival, MARS-IP reaffirms its position in French, German, and European intellectual property law and its ability to effectively advise companies operating on both sides of the Rhine on their projects and litigation.
Maël Strahmann is a graduate of the French-German law program at the Universities of Paris Nanterre and Potsdam. He has already completed a highly regarded internship at our firm, during which he demonstrated his commitment and ability to understand complex cases. This year, he passed his second state exam (zweites juristisches Staatsexamen), crowning his excellent binational academic career.
His arrival enriches our team with valuable expertise, furthering our ongoing commitment to providing our clients with high-level support on legal issues involving France, Germany, and Europe.
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Interview - Why it is possible to manufacture “Dubai Chocolate” outside the United Arab Emirates - L'Usine nouvelle - 06/2025
Interview - Do you have to learn everything from scratch to practise law internationally? - Justifit - 05/2025
Conference - How AI is impacting creative industries - Embassy of France in Berlin - 11/2024
Interview - AI companies and rights holders need to find a way to coexist. Does one exist? - MLex - 08/2024
Interview - What German business makes of France’s leftward turn - The Economist - 07/2024
Conference - Joint venture companies – what are their specific characteristics? Comparative perspectives from French and German law: Company law, intellectual property law, competition law - AAF / DAV Frankreich - 05/2024
Conference - Legal protection in the AI era - Intellectual property and competition law - DACH - Istambul - September 2025, 18-20.
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Copyright does not recognize plagiarism, but counterfeiting, which punishes only the identical or quasi-textual copying of a previous original work. Infringement does not protect ideas, only original formatting. Copyright is therefore a tool in the fight against plagiarism, but an incomplete one. To punish paraphrase, the theft of ideas, another legal figure can be invoked - parasitism - but it is difficult to implement. It is therefore the rules of scientific integrity and deontology that should protect the researcher.
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