Cecile Barrio

-20 years of successful professional experience in managing innovative projects covering the 3 regulatory missions of IP, namely:

1/ protection of innovations through IP rights (Patents, designs and models, trade secrets, know-how, software, databases, trademarks and copyrights),

2/ pre-litigation and litigation,

3/ contracting upstream of innovation (research consortium agreements, university chair creation, research agreements, etc.) and downstream of innovation (assignments, licenses, cross-licenses, know-how disclosure agreements, etc.);

- Horizontal missions (IP in commercial contracts, social and tax aspects of IP in a Group present in 100 countries worldwide).

- Work in 3 languages, spoken and written,

- Training and awareness-raising for internal client operational departments of the IP unit that I created,

- Excellent writing skills,

- Responsiveness, efficiency, proactivity and autonomy (business owner for 7 years),

- Great intellectual curiosity for different technologies: biochemistry, green chemistry, digital twins, agri-food, microorganisms.