ALTIUS

Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property.

Partner

Christophe Ronse was admitted to the Brussels Bar in 1988.

Christophe is a partner in the IP & litigation department of ALTIUS and leads the firm’s life sciences and patents practice.

In particular, Christophe specialises in intellectual property, with a focus on patent law, and healthcare law. He advises and assists national and international clients in complex litigation at the Belgian level and in national and international arbitration.

Christophe is a regular contributor of legal articles and a speaker at conferences mainly in the field of intellectual property & pharmaceutical law, including delivering the inaugural address to the Brussels Bar Association for the judicial year 2005-2006.

He is a member of INTA, LES, EPLAW and was the president of AIPPI’s Belgian association from 2011 until 2017.

Christophe serves on the AIPPI Standing Committee on Pharma and is also a member of the editorial board of ICIP, a leading Belgian legal journal in the IP field.

He was appointed deputy judge at the Court of Appeal of Brussels in 2016 and is an active member of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Christophe also serves on the IBA Technology Law Committee.

Christophe is fluent in Dutch, French and English.

Author of various contributions and articles and a regular speaker at various seminars on Intellectual Property issues and Patent Litigation, Christophe is a member of the International Bar Association (IBA), the European Patent Lawyers’ Association (EPLAW), the Licensing Executive Society (LES), and the Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Proprieté Intellectuelle (AIPPI) where he is currently a board member of the Belgian chapter.

LL.M. (University of Illinois) Juris (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), cum laude