Alexander Thurgood
Consultant en Propriété Intellectuelle, IP GALORE
CPI : French Patent Counsel, Conseil en Propriété Industrielle
EPA : European Patent Attorney, Mandataire agréé près l'Office Européen des Brevets
Former substantive examiner at the EPO (European Patent Office)
Born and educated in the United Kingdom.
Studied Chemistry and French at Keele University, UK.
Left the UK in 1989 to work at the European Patent Office in Munich, where I perfected my German language skills.
Left Munich in 1993 to join the IP law firm Germain and Maureau. Worked as a junior patent attorney for that firm until 1998.
Joined Meristem Therapeutics in 1998 as in-house IP Counsel.
Left Meristem in 2002 to become a partner in the law firm Cabinet Michel Richebourg
Created my own IP law consultancy firm in January 2010.
Lecturer in IP at the University of Angers, Faculty of Pharmacy, and the University Paris VII, Biotech & Genetics.
106 contacts2002 - 2009Partner, French Intellectual Property Counsel, European Patent Attorney.
Advising clients in relation to protecting, defending and strategy of intellectual property and the innovation processes. Drafting legal instruments, assignments, licences, for IP rights. Filing, prosecution, and litigation of IP rights, representation at the European Patent Office. Multiple technical fields covered, specialising in chemistry, construction materials, life sciences (biochem / biotech), medical and pharmaceutical sciences.
Conducting and coordinating litigation, infringement seizures, infringement actions, oppositions, freedom to operate and patentability analyses.
Mother tongue : English
Other languages spoken / written : German, French
1998 - 2002Responsible for developing and applying corporate IP policy. In house counsel for all IP related matters.
Drafting, filing and prosecution of IP cases, patents, trademarks, copyright. Liaison and reporting to company President.
Conducting and managing multinational IP related litigation.
Negotiations in IP related affairs, licensing, business development.
1993 - 1998Patent attorney : advising clients on a range of issues in relation to patents, employee inventions, IP and innovation protection strategies.
Drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications in France, Europe, the USA, and other countries.
Conducting and drafting patentability studies, freedom to operate analyses, litigation and opposition briefs.
Conducting prior art searches.
Managing and developing relationships with international IP law firms.
1989 - 1993Substantive Examiner of European and PCT patent applications.
Member of the opposition divisions.
Working in the three official languages of the EPO : English, French, German.
Technical fields : cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, paints and dyestuffs, food chemistry, manufacture, extraction and purification / work-up of proteins.