Expertise
- Computers/Software
- Electrical Engineering
- Optics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Semiconductor topographies
- Energy
- Telecommunications
- Unitary patent
I enjoy developing the best possible protection strategy for my clients’ inventions. For this, I can draw on my wide-ranging experience in avoiding and solving conflicts both in Europe and in other parts of the world. From a technology perspective, my experience is primarily in – but certainly not limited to – electronics, mechanical engineering, telecommunications and computer-implemented inventions.
My clients appreciate my creativity and the way I can help them to describe an invention as effectively as possible and in all its variants. In doing so I am quick to spot opportunities for making additional use of other intellectual property rights, including, for example, opportunities to register designs and contractual agreements to protect company secrets. I also enjoy thinking up ways to valorise intellectual property rights.
Education
- Electrical Engineering, University College St-Lieven, Ghent
- Bachelor in Germanic Languages, University of Ghent
- European Patent Litigation Certificate, CEIPI, Strasbourg
Publications
- CJEU judgment reshuffles litigation costs in Belgium, Managing IP, 24 August 2017, co-author
- The (too) effective Belgian descriptive seizures, Managing IP, 7 December 2012
- EU patent threatened by advocates general, Managing IP, 25 February 2011, co-author