Ananda Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property

Managing Partner

After six years of intellectual property practice in Thailand, Franck founded Ananda IP in 2011 with the goal of creating Thailand’s best boutique IP firm. Recognized as one of Thailand’s leading IP specialists, Franck’s practice areas include trademark and patent prosecution, trademark strategy, copyright and patent litigation, anti-counterfeit strategy, and IP contracts.

In addition to servicing several high-profile, multinational corporations from Europe, China, Japan, the USA, India, UAE and Southeast Asia, Franck is also a frequent speaker on cutting-edge IP issues at professional symposiums and conferences. A recognized expert, Franck is a regular lecturer in patent, trademark, and design law for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and a teacher/reviewer of WIPO’s Distance Learning program (DL302, DL450, DL 201, Turin Master of Intellectual Property, Ankara Master and Yaoundé Master). He is an advisor to the European Union (ECAP & EU/ASEAN IPR Helpdesk), to the Swiss Government (ISIP I and ISIP II), and to the French government on IP issues. Franck has authored numerous expert studies and articles, including two IP guides for Thailand published in 2011 and 2013. Franck is also a former President of the Franco Thai Chamber of Commerce (2009-2011), and an active member of APAA Emerging IP Rights Committee. In 2013, Franck Fougere received the ILO Client Choice award for best patent practitioner in Thailand. Legal 500 and Asia Law has recognized him as a Leading Lawyer since 2004. In 2015, Franck was appointed as Foreign Trade Advisor (Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France) by the French government. In 2019, Franck was appointed Chairman of EABC Working Group on Intellectual Property.

Franck graduated from Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Strasbourg) in France and College of Europe (Bruges) in Belgium and trained at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He trained at an international law firm in Brussels before moving to Thailand in 2002.

French, English, German, Russian, Thai

International Trademark Association (INTA)

Association of Trade Mark and Design Law Practitioners (APRAM)

Intellectual Property Association of Thailand (IPAT)

Asian Patent Attorneys Association (APAA)

ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA)

University of Paris I Sorbonne, France - Master Degree in Public Law, 2002

College of Europe, Belgium - LL.M. in European Law, 2001 (summa cum laude)

University of Luxembourg and University Robert Schuman, France and Luxembourg - LL.M. in European Litigation Law, 2000 (first of class)

Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Strasbourg, France - Master Degree in Political Science & Certificate of German Studies, 1999

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