Valérie Feray
Patent Attorney
CEO, Managing Partner
Paris area, Nantes, Tours, Luxembourg, New York
French / English / Spanish/ Italian / German
Valérie Feray
French Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Union Trade Mark and Design Attorney
Professional representative before the EPO
Education and experience
- Engineer from the École Centrale Paris
- CEIPI Graduate – Patents, Trade Marks and Designs
- Experience in IP since 1990
- Patent Engineer and subsequently Head of French IP Department at Groupe Alcatel (today Alcatel-Lucent) until 2001
- Founding partner of Feray Lenne Conseil
Expertise and know how
- Patents in the fields of optics, physics, electronics, electricity, telecommunications and mechanics
- All aspects of the acquisition and management of patents worldwide
- Licences, technology transfer agreements, assignments, confidentiality agreements
- Dispute resolution in patent matters
- Freedom to operate searches
- Patentability studies
- Audit and due diligence of IP rights, providing advice on IP strategy, financial valorisation of IP portfolios, licensing-in and -out
Other professional activities
- Member of the CNCPI, the ACPI, the LES, the AIPPI, the AACEIPI and the EPI
- Former member of the Board of Directors of the ASPI
- Member of the entrance examination board for the CEIPI
- Teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Rennes
Field of activities
- Patents