PATENT - Key Persons
Formerly an engineer in the industry, André Marchand entered the Intellectual Property field in 1990 as a member of the Legal department of his company. During several years, he managed the Intellectual Property of the parent company as well as several subsidiary companies in many different technical fields: military and space aeronautics, instrumentation, sensors, automation components, components for household appliances, electric motors, etc.
In 1995, he left industry and became the director of a regional agency for a Paris Intellectual Property firm. In 1998, he founded Omnipat.
Jean Jacques joined the firm in 2011 after working as an in-house attorney at STMicroelectronics for 9 years, two of which he spent in the US, where he was confronted to the particulars of US patent law and licensing. While he was in the US, he passed the US Patent Agent exam.
Jean Jacques started his career in 1989 as an examiner at the European Patent Office, in Munich. Then he worked for 9 years in the IP firm Cabinet Beaumont, Grenoble, then one year at Hewlett-Packard before joining STMicroelectronics.
In addition to the usual expertise in the field of intellectual property, Jean Jacques also has an extensive experience with open source software licenses and open source strategies to adopt by companies.
Expertise: Electronics, data processing, software, mechanics
Job Titles:
- Administrative Director
- Patents