Expertise
- Chemistry
- Pharma
- Supplementary protection certificate (SPC)
I previously worked as an Intellectual Asset Manager for the publicly listed Tessenderlo Group, where I was responsible for the patent portfolio of several business units active in chemistry, agriculture and industrial solutions (mining, plastic sewer pipes & fittings). I was previously employed at NLO during 2016-2020, where I completed my professional training as a patent attorney. Before that, I worked in the pharmaceutical industry.
The launch of a new ‘smart’ product today often involves complexity in multiple dimensions as companies have to deal with both patents for mechanical design, chemical reactions or material properties, as well as smart control. We offer a solution for complex puzzles of this kind. Think medical devices, smart factories, AI-controlled measuring and control techniques, smart formulations for crop protection or fertilisation, etc.
In addition, we serve clients within a broad spectrum of traditional work, ranging from bulk chemicals to pesticides (including SPCs) and from plastic pipe fittings to high-tech coatings.
You can call on our team for support in the areas of:
- Invention protection: national and international patent application and extension procedures
- Opposition
- Freedom-to-operate advice
- Collaborations and negotiations with third parties (NDAs, JDAs, licences, etc.)
- M&A (due diligence, second opinions, portfolio analyses)
- Litigation (together with our extensive network of IP lawyers)
- Innovation tax relief (together with our extensive network of tax lawyers)
- Etc.
Education and training
- MSc in Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2013
- Dutch patent attorney
- European patent attorney
Publications
- Co-author of the authoritative “SPC Handbook” (Stief, 2021)
- How does the EU encourage pharmaceutical innovation? - managingip.com (2019)
- CJEU Judgment reshuffles litigation costs in Belgium – managingip.com (2017)
- Influence of solvation and dynamics on the mechanism and kinetics of nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions in liquid ammonia, The Journal of Organic Chemistry (2016)
- Synthesis of 2-Spiropseudoindoxyls via an Intramolecular Nitroalkyne Redox–Dipolar Cycloaddition Cascade, Organic Letters, 2014
