Valérie Feray

Valérie Feray

Paris area, Nantes, Tours, Luxembourg, New York

French Patent Attorney, European Patent Attorney, European Union Trade Mark and Design Attorney

Professional representative before the EPO

Professional representative before the EUIPO

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