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I am an IP law and life sciences specialist with a particular focus on litigation work and innovations in science and technology. I assist my clients in all IP areas, focusing strongly on patent law, trade secrets law, and copyright. A substantive part of my practice is IP litigation. I am passionate about scientific and technological innovations and have a wealth of experience in high-end and complex patent litigation as well as innovation-driven transactional work (technology transfer, licenses, joint research agreements, etc.). This is reflected in the matters I handle for Belgian and international clients from various sectors, notably the life sciences and medical device industries. As a native French and German speaker, I am also very well connected with the German market.I graduated in law from the Université catholique de Louvain in 2006. I obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M) focusing on IP and competition law from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2007. I have been an associated researcher at the Unit for Economic Law of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2013. I am often invited to speak at conferences featuring IP and trade secrets law and have authored many publications on these subjects.
I am the President of the French-speaking section of the Belgian Patent Attorney Accreditation Commission, the Secretary of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW), and a board member of the Belgian Copyright Association (BVA-ABA), the Belgian law journal Revue de droit commercial (RDC-TBH) and the Belgian copyright law journal Auteurs & Media (A&M). I am also active in several international organisations, such as AIPPI, LES and GRUR. I am also a third-party decider acknowledged by CEPANI for the resolution of disputes relating to .be domain names.
I am ranked as a Leading Individual by The Legal 500 in Intellectual Property (2024) and as a Patent Star by IP Stars (2024).