Thierry is a partner in our Paris office. He is part of the firm’s global Intellectual Property Group.
Thanks to his dual legal and engineering/scientific background, Thierry is unique in being one of very few French patent litigators, qualified as both an attorney-at-law and a European patent attorney. As an optics and electronics engineer by background, Thierry uses his understanding, knowledge, and experience to provide clients with creative, technically robust, and business-oriented patent strategies.
Thierry advises international and French clients in all types of patent-related issues, including French and cross-border patent litigation (notably infringement, invalidity, ownership, and preliminary injunction proceedings), as well as litigation strategy, freedom-to-operate, licensing, and settlement negotiations. His practice covers a wide range of sectors, such as electronics, telecommunications, computer sciences, life sciences, medical devices, transportation, and mechanics.
Having started his career as a patent attorney, Thierry also has extensive experience in all phases of domestic and international patent prosecution, whereby he advises clients in all aspects relating to the management of their valuable patent portfolios. In that capacity, he assists clients in drafting, filing, and prosecuting patent applications, as well as during opposition proceedings before the French and European patent offices. Thierry has represented both patent owners and opponents at every step of opposition proceedings.
In addition to patents, Thierry counsels his clients on trade secrets. Thierry’s practice includes the building up of corporate trade secrets programs (the so-called “reasonable steps” to protect trade secrets), as well as the protection of trade secrets during court litigation (regarding confidential evidence). Thierry is the author of many articles in France on trade secrets and on their interplay with intellectual property.
