Stibbe

Intellectual property and Life Sciences

Partner

Philippe is an IP law and life sciences specialist with a particular focus on litigation work and innovations in science and technology. Philippe assists his clients in all IP areas, focusing strongly on patent law, trade secrets law, and copyright. A substantive part of his practice is IP litigation. Philippe is passionate about scientific and technological innovations and has a wealth of experience in high-end and complex patent litigations as well as innovation-driven transactional work (technology transfer, licenses, joint research agreements, etc.). This is reflected in the matters he handles for Belgian and international clients from various sectors, notably the life sciences and medical device industries. As a native French and German speaker, Philippe is also very well connected with the German market.

French, German, English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian

Member of the executive committee of the law journal Auteurs & Media (2009–present) Member of the management board of the Belgian Copyright Association (BVA-ABA) (2016–present) Member of the Belgian Patent Attorney Accreditation Commission (2017–present) Member of the European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) Member of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Member of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) Member of the Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht (GRUR) Third-party decider acknowledged by CEPANI for the resolution of disputes relating to .be domain names

Erasmus programme at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2006) Master’s degree in Law from the Université catholique de Louvain (2006) Master of Laws (LL.M.), specialisation in IP and competition law, from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany (2007) Admitted to the Brussels Bar in 2007 Completed the English Law and Legal Methods Summer Programme at University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2009) Associate (2007–2014), Counsel (2015–2017), Partner (2017–2019) in the IP-IT department of an independent Belgian law firm Assistant of the “Introduction to Law” course at the Université libre de Bruxelles (2010–2014) Associate researcher at the Economic Law Unit of the Université libre de Bruxelles (2013–present) With the Brussels office of Stibbe since 2019 (Partner since 2019)