Laure est avocat au sein de l'équipe IP/TMT du bureau de Paris.

Laure Cardinet a été classé en tant que "Rising Star" pour la pratique Propriété Intellectuelle (Trademarks and Designs) en France par Legal 500 EMEA 2024.

Experience & capabilities

Selected matters

  • an Internet service provider in several disputes against a third party infringing its well-known trademarks, including oppositions and cancellations actions, AFNIC (the French Association for Cooperative Internet Naming) dispute resolution proceedings and well-known trademark infringement proceedings before the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris 
  • an international tech firm on the prosecution of its French trademarks and with all IP-related pre-contentious and litigation matters arising in France (e.g. providing risk assessment on trademark and copyright, filing trademark oppositions, cancellation actions and trademark infringement actions)
  • a leading oil and gas company on the filing of international trademarks designating 40+ territories (conducting clearance search and risk analysis, drafting of trademark descriptions, filing of trademark applications and monitoring local trademark agents)
  • a leading international household appliances company in an unfair competition and free riding dispute in relation to advertisements as well as design cancellation actions
  • an online platform in a copyright infringement dispute before the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris

Background

Laure is a member of the Paris and New York bars. Before joining Herbert Smith Freehills as an associate in 2016, she graduated from Sorbonne Universités – Panthéon-Assas' MBA/ Master in Business Law and Management, obtained her LL.M. degree in Intellectual property with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and worked as an in-house lawyer in a fashion company in New York City.