After a Master’s degree in Life and Earth Sciences and various professional experiences in several fields and sectors, Arnaud has been working as a patent engineer since November 2008 at Innovincia.
He drafts patent applications and monitors patent granting procedures in France, Europe and abroad. He also conducts patentability, freedom to operate and infringement studies. He works with small, medium and large companies.
Arnaud works in various technical fields such as biology, chemistry and mechanics.
As mechanical and instrumentation engineer, Étienne has been working as a patent engineer with innovincia since November 2017. He works with small, medium and large companies. He drafts patent applications and defends them during granting procedures in France and abroad. He also conducts freedom to operate studies. His preferred fields are mechanics, optics and electronics.
Before joining LLR, Céline Thirapounnho worked as a lawyer at the Paris Bar for 11 years.
Her activity was dedicated to intellectual property, including in particular trademark law, design rights, copyright and unfair competition law. Céline worked in both consulting (drafting and contract negotiations, IP support for M & A transactions, consultations) and in litigation (counterfeiting cases, settlement negotiation) for companies in luxury, retail and consumer goods; for the media, entertainment and technology sector.
Since 2018, Céline Thirapounnho has joined our team of intellectual property attorneys in Paris.
Teaching activities
- Teacher of the course “ (“IP Litigation”) of the module “Propriété industrielle à l’ère du numérique : Brevets, licences et construction d’un portefeuille PI” (“Industrial Property in the Digital Age: Patents, Licenses and Construction of an IP Portfolio”) at the École des Hautes Études Appliquées du Droit (18 February 2022)
Professional Organisations
- Member of the Association of Trademark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)
Complementary Activities
- 2021: Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Études Appliquées du Droit
- From 2012 to 2017: Trainer at INPI for the CAB/CAM training on the topic of “counterfeiting procedure”
After entering the profession in 2010 and four years of experience within one of the largest industrial property firms in Paris, Alexandra Rossi – von Thüngen joined our team in 2014 as a patent engineer skilled in the fields of aeronautics, mechanics and material science.
Alexandra drafts patent applications both in french and english, follows up French, Swiss, European and foreign grant procedures and also carries out patentability and freedom-to-operate studies.
In 2017, Alexandra Rossi – von Thüngen relocated to Geneva where she pursued her activity as a patent attorney in a Swiss firm.
She returned to LLR as soon as the Swiss office of LLR was founded.
Mr. Liu entered the profession in 1995. With profound legal study and over twenty years of work experience at law firms, Mr.Liu specializes in intellectual property protection, litigation and dispute settlement and achieves the outstanding performance in I.P. litigation, especially of patent related litigation. One of the most influential cases, Mr.Liu handled is Chint Group vs. Schneider Electric, which still retains the highest damages among patent infringement litigations. Mr.Liu co-authored a book based on the above-mentioned case
Interventions & conferences
- Speaker at the webinar “Intellectual Property Tribunal of the Supreme People’s Court: What Experience on Technology-Related Cases Since 3 Years?” organised by the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (CCI FRANCE CHINE), 8 June 2022
Activities
- Thesis supervisor of the Law School of Renmin Univesity of China
- Extramural Academic Tutor of Beijing Industry University
- Expert to I-Tank Program of the China I.P. Press.
Publication
No. 1 Case of Patent Infringement in China, China I.P. Press, 2010.
After gaining more than 12 years’ experience in an industrial property consultancy firm at Lyon, Laurence Bontron joined our team in July 2017.
Her work includes trademark, design, domain name and unfair competition law for French and foreign customers including SMEs and multinationals. In the field of protection and defence of industrial property rights, she provides consultancy services to customers during prior art searches and applications. She is involved in management of rights, in the framework of oppositions or attack and defence litigations, as well as in drawing up contracts.
Her customers are specialized in particular in the medical, textile, cosmetics, IT and telecommunications, and urban furniture fields.
Professional Organisations
- Rhône-Alpes Group for the protection of Intellectual Property (GRAPI)
- Association of Trademark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)
After completing his end of study internship in a Parisian firm, Jérôme graduated from the CEIPI and has worked as a patent engineer since April 2015.
He assists small and large companies by drafting and filing patent applications, supervising grant procedures in France and abroad, and is involved in various consultations such as freedom-to-operate studies.
He is specialized in mechanics and biotechnologies. He is responsible for patent files in the fields of cosmetics, automotive tyres, automotive equipment vendors, etc.
Laurence Lebrun worked as corporate lawyer specialized in contracts and intellectual property in international groups in the telecom, IT and industrial sectors before joining our team in March 2017.
She works in the contract department for SMEs or international groups characterized by strong technological activity and culture.
She provides consultancy services, drafts, negotiates and monitors contracts, in English and French, at every stage of development and commercialization of technologies (confidentiality agreements, R&D contracts, technology transfers, patent co-ownership agreements, patent licences, IT service contracts and software licences). She is also involved in the field of copyright for consultations or patent right assignment contracts.
In addition, she provides consultancy services for contracts relating to intellectual property at every stage in the life of companies, whether startups or international groups (audits, transfers of intellectual property rights related to merger and acquisition transactions, joint venture agreements).
Anne-Sophie Pillot worked at the Brittany delegation of the INPI (French National Industrial Property Institute) before joining our team in January 2017.
She assists clients with the acquisition of trademarks and models (anteriority searches, preparation of names, official letters, negotiations). She is also responsible for the protection and defence of industrial property rights (litigations, oppositions) and helps draw up contracts in France and abroad.
Her clients are specialized, in particular, in wine, cosmetics and pharmacy, food, museums, lighting and entertainment.
Fujuan DAI has worked in a number of famous intellectual property firms in China in the fields of trademarks, copyright, domain names, application of customs rules, infringement investigations and negotiations during intellectual property litigations. She joined the LLR China Trademark team in 2017, which provides trademark, domain name, copyright advice to overseas clients. Fujuan DAI subsequently became a partner at LLR China Trademark.
Fujuan DAI is specialized in the management of trademark law procedures and litigations, in particular anteriority search, per-application analysis, opposition, cancellation and invalidation files, assignment and licences as well as litigation proceedings before the courts.
Her customers include SMEs as well as companies from the 500 largest enterprises working in the sectors of medicine, food and the retail, luxury, electronic and automotive trades.
Speeches & conferences
- Speaker at the webinar “Chinese market for French and European cosmetics: regulatory compliance and brand protection” – CCI France Chine (June 25, 2024)
