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BIGNON LEBRAY strengthens its Intellectual Property and Advanced Technology Department with the arrival of Elise DUFOUR as Of Counsel
July 2016 by Marc Jacob
Elise Dufour joined BIGNON LEBRAY’s Intellectual Property and Advanced Technology
Law Department as Of Counsel. Elise is admitted to the Paris Bar and specialises in new technology law.
She advises French and international clients on transactional and litigation matters in the digital sector.
Elise DUFOUR has more than 10 years of experience and her practice focuses on the following:
– IT projects (contract negotiation and management, legal assistance with IT projects) and assistance with
the implementation of cloud computing solutions;
– Usage and security of collected data (Open Data, Big Data, Small Data, Business Intelligence) and
advising clients on data protection matters;
– Digital restructuring strategy;
– E-marketing policies;
– Online protection of intangible assets (reputation management, AdWords policy, domain name and new
extension strategy, domain name recovery).
More generally, Elise advises clients on all of their e-commerce initiatives (online and mobile applications).
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Her expertise will contribute significantly to the department’s existing areas of expertise which include:
– Trademarks
– Patents
– Designs and models
– Databases
– Software and software packages
– Websites
Elise DUFOUR holds a Master’s Degree (DESS) in Corporate Law (Université Paris V) as well as an LLM in
IP/IT from Queen Mary University. Before joining Bignon Lebray, Elise began her career with Nathalie
Dreyfus, the founder of Dreyfus et Associés. She then joined Alain Bensoussan in 2007 as director of the
Internet Department.
A member of Cyberlex, a IP/IT expert organisation, and recently appointed as an expert by WIPO, Elise
DUFOUR is extremely involved and active and the new technology sector.
