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Direct patent support to the Sanofi France eHealth Lab 39BIS initiative. Global patent support to the Sanofi Industrial Affairs (e.g. Pharma Dev Platforms, Packaging and CEPiA/SAIS today within EUROAPI)Global patent support to the Sanofi GBU Consumer Healthcare.

Brussels, Eu

Ensuring Sanofi's contribution to EFPIA's advocacy agenda & needs - Permanent coordination with Sanofi's EU Public Affairs and with Sanofi's global IP Policy - Contribution to EFPIA IP Expert Working Group (Brussels) - Contribution to Sanofi PhRMA coordination

Head of IA patent team. Development of a patent team created in mid 2006 to support IA developments, including the new IA ID&I organisation - Direct patent support to the ID&I team in India (GOA center), to the IA BU CHC team, to IDSL / C&BD (processes) and PSO (formulations) and to the CEPiA business (Custom Synthesis, CEPiA Business Units, and Global External Manufacturing GEM) and Sanofi PackagingIn the meantime, zolpidem product patent attorney responsibilities including US litigation further to the launch of AmbienCR in late 2005: coordination with the US lawyers in charge (Fitzpatrick, Brian Slater) from the US discovery phase including organization of numerous employees interviews, management of former employees inventorship claims for inventorship and reexamination of the AmbienCR patent at the USPTO. EPO patent attorney responsibilities for the corresponding opposition at the EPO (with Gordon Wright).

Creation in mid-2006 of a new patent team within Sanofi Patents to support the Sanofi Industrial Affairs developments (including process developments, formulation developments and developments for third parties, CEPiA, today SAIS).Various patent portfolio taken in charge, as related to Aventis spin-off (Oroxel, Proskelia) including co-property with Genentech. Patent support to the R&D Pharmaceutical Science Department including support to various BDL-in projects. Patent attorney responsibilities for R&D projects in the Central Nervous System patent team, including: modified released zolpidem formulation project (launched in the US in 2005 under trademark AmbienCR) and the amisulpride/SOLIAN orodispersible tablet formulation project.

Paris, France

Creation in mid-2006 of a new patent team with Claudie Lamour from Aventis Patents, to support the Sanofi Industrial Affairs developments (including process developments, formulation developments and developments for third parties, today CEPiA).Various patent portfolio taken in charge, as related to Aventis spin-off (Oroxel, Proskelia) including co-property with Genentech.Patent support to the R&D Pharmaceutical Science Department including various BDL-in projects. Patent attorney responsibilities for R&D projects in the Central Nervous System patent team, including: modified released zolpidem formulation project (launched in the US in 2005 under trademark AmbienCR) and the amisulpride/SOLIAN orodispersible tablet formulation project.

Patent attorney responsibilities for R&D projects, including: modified released zolpidem formulation project (launched in the US in 2005 under trademark AmbienCR), the amisulpride/SOLIAN orodispersible tablet formulation project and amiodarone (CORDARONE), dronedarone (MULTAQ) patent portfolios. Patent support to the R&D Pharmaceutical Science Department including various BDL-in projects.

Responsabilities in private IP law firm as a French qualified patent attorney before the French patent office (INPI ; registered in 1998 as "Conseil en Propriété Industrielle, brevets") - Drafting patent applications, patent prosecutions to grant before the patent offices worldwide for clients mainly in the fields of chemistry, cosmetics and pharmaceutics. Preparation and filing (under the responsability of a qualified European Patent Attorney) of an opposition against a European granted patent including prior use grounds (cosmetics) - Preparation of the European Patent Attorney qualification examination to be taken before the European Patent Office (EPO)

Military service at the financial and industrial property departments of the French army (DRET, Direction des Recherches et Etudes Techniques, Paris) - Review of IP clauses and administrative management of contracts of the French Army with various research national or private companies (all technical fields). In the meantime, freelance registered activity in France for private practice IP law firms (with special authorization of the French Army): translations of European granted patents from English or German languages into French language (European Patent Office "validations"). Excellent patent claim drafting learning exercice, since translating the accurate scope of granted patent claims requires to master the claimed invention in view of the whole patent specification which was also to be translated.

European Patent Litigation Course

Education record

Education record

Centre D'Etudes International De La Propriété Industrielle

French Chemical Engineer