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Jones Day Offices
2 RUE SAINT-FLORENTIN
75001 PARIS
France
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Eddy Prothiere
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Counsel
Career
Eddy Prothière works exclusively in intellectual property law, with a focus on patents pertaining to validity and infringement. He has significant experience in matters relating to electronics, medical devices, mechanics, chemistry, drugs, and leisure goods. He also intervenes in disputes concerning patent ownership or compensation for employee inventions. In addition, Eddy is active in the field of entertainment and mediates on numerous cases in the field of video game protection.
Eddy regularly lectures at the University of Lyon on industrial property litigation and has written on patent litigation. He is a member of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property) and GRAPI (Rhône-Alpes Group for the Protection of Intellectual Property).
Languages
English, French
Education
- Pierre Mendès-France University (Master 2 in Intellectual Property, Industrial Agreements, and Technologies Law 2000)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Intellectual property: Patents
(Rising stars)At Jones Day, the practice has solid experience in working in tandem with the firm’s German and UK teams to assist with pan-European patent litigation. The team is well known for its strength in handling infringement proceedings and seizures before UK and German courts, and is very experienced in assisting pharmaceutical companies with patent matters, including freedom-to-operate analyses. Thomas Bouvet, who has established expertise in French and European patent litigation proceedings, co-heads the department with transactional expert Edouard Fortunet. Eddy Prothiere is sought after for advising on validity and infringement claims, and Colin Devinant‘s practice takes in national and international patent litigation.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Environment
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Industry focus: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project finance
- Tax