Experience

Lavoix - IP vibration

• France
• Legal Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate Patent Attorney

  • Jan 2000 - Present

  Preparing new patent applications, prosecution practice before the French and European Patent Offices, including numerous oral proceedings before the Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeals of the EPO, prior art searches, patentability and clearance opinions, litigation and, assistance in defining and enforcing industrial property strategies. Preparing new patent applications, prosecution practice before the French and European Patent Offices, including numerous oral proceedings before the Opposition Divisions and Boards of Appeals of the EPO, prior art searches, patentability and clearance opinions, litigation and, assistance in defining and enforcing industrial property strategies.



USINOR (now ArcelorMittal)

• Maizières-lès-Metz (France), then Paris (France)

• Patent engineer

  • Oct 1987 - Jan 2000

  Drafting and prosecution of patent applications, oppositions before European patent Office, definition and implementation of patenting policies within USINOR Drafting and prosecution of patent applications, oppositions before European patent Office, definition and implementation of patenting policies within USINOR



IRSID ( Research Institute of French Steelmaking industry)

• Maizières-lès-Metz (France)

• Research Development Engineer

  • Nov 1981 - Sep 1987

  R & D research on steelmaking, particularly on "ladle metallurgy" (treatment of liquid steel before its casting) R & D research on steelmaking, particularly on "ladle metallurgy" (treatment of liquid steel before its casting)