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Professional experience
Specialist in intellectual property handling questions relating to patents and to the protection of designs and artistic and literary works. Experience also includes media law, distribution (dealerships, franchises, etc.), computer science, the internet, domain names, including contract law and competition issues in these fields. Assistance of Belgian and international enterprises in these areas, covering a wide range of structural and contractual operations and disputes requiring resolution via negotiation, mediation or pleadings before Belgian and European courts.Admitted to the WIPO List of Neutrals as a WIPO Arbitrator, and to the list of third party deciders accredited by the French Bar Association of Brussels in the context of the binding third party decision procedures.
Registered as UPC representative (Unified Patent Court).
Member of Simont Braun's Supreme Court team and assisting them in matters relating to intellectual property, market practices and competition law.
From 2006 until 2022, president of the Industrial Property section of the Council for Intellectual Property, the main mission of which is to provide the Minister responsible for intellectual property with advice on any matter relating to intellectual property, in particular in the law-making process.
Former lecturer in Benelux design law at the Centre for International Studies in Intellectual Property (CEIPI, Strasbourg) and visiting lecturer in IP contract law at UCLouvain from 2007 to 2017.