Béatrice Martinet is Of Counsel at Sideman & Bancroft since March 2014. Béatrice Martinet’s practice focuses primarily on intellectual property litigation, arbitration and transactional work for clients in a wide range of sectors, including in the computer, technology, software, publishing, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, and fashion industries. Ms. Martinet graduated with honors from the University of Paris II (France) and Libera Università Degli Studi Sociali (Rome, Italy) and continues to collaborate with Stanford University as a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) Fellow. Her TTLF thesis, “Internet Intermediaries’ Liability for Copyright and Trademark Infringement : Reconciling the US and EU approaches” is posted at the Stanford Law School site. Prior to joining Sideman & Bancroft, Ms. Martinet practiced for ten years in France, notably in the Paris intellectual property departments of two large international law firms, Salans (now Dentons) and Bird & Bird. Ms. Martinet’s native languages are French and Italian ; she is fluent in English, and conversant in Spanish as well.
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OSP liability : Paris Court of appeal confirms the abandon by French Courts of the “notice and stay down” doctrine* In a decision of 21 June 2013, the Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed that the obligation for an Online Service Provider (OSP) to take down infringing content is limited to (...)
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UK High Court finds for Interflora in the long running AdWords dispute with Mark & Spencer* On 21 May 2013, the UK High Court of Justice handed down a long awaited decision in the long running dispute between Interflora and Mark & Spencer (M&S). In this case, Interflora had (...)
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U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit finds BitTorrent operator liable for contributory infringement on an inducement theory (Columbia Picture v. Fung)* On 21 March 2013, the U.S. 9th Circuit affirmed in part and vacated in part the California Central District Court decision that Gary Fung, (...)
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U.S. Supreme Court applies first sale doctrine to copies of copyrighted work lawfully made abroad and imported into the U.S.* On 19 March 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley, holding that the first sale doctrine in U.S. copyright law extended to (...)
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European Court of Justice holds that the doctrine of exhaustion applies to downloaded software (UsedSoft v. Oracle)* On 3 July 2012, the European Court of Justice issued a groundbreaking judgment regarding the resale of used software licenses in the European Union. Oracle develops and markets (...)
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