Arnaud GASNIER has started his career in the field of patents more than 10 years ago. He currently works as Assistant Director for the patent department of TNO, the national organization for contract research in the Netherlands. His activities embrace strategy, education and quality. He started to work for TNO in 2003 as Licensing Associate. He is also a part-time Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management (TPM) of the Delft University of Technology since 2004. Before, he gained experience in patent drafting and prosecution when working for a law firm in France (1996-1997), later for the Swatch Group in Switzerland (1997-1999) and more recently for Philips in Holland (2001-2003) under the direct tutoring of Derk Visser, the author of “The Annotated European Patent Convention”.

In 2004 Arnaud qualified as a European patent attorney. He also holds a Master of Intellectual Property from Pierce Law, Concord, New Hampshire, USA, and a post-graduate diploma on patents from CEIPI, Strasbourg, France. He initially obtained a Master of Science in Physics from ENSPG, Grenoble, France, in 1996.

Further, Arnaud has conceived IP training products e.g. “The Visual European Patent Convention”, a hyperlinked flowchart of the granting procedure. Between 1998 and 2006 he gave patent awareness courses at universities (INP Grenoble) in France.

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