Patent 42

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Whatever your question is, we will find an answer for you.

Patent 42 is a law firm acting in Industrial Property. Our job is to help and assist companies and entrepreneurs in protecting and defending their investments in innovation and creation.

If innovation is first of all a state of mind, it is also a necessity and a source of development and growth for your company. Investments carried out to develop new products or new activities deserve to be protected.

Is your innovation technological? Have you invented or improved a product or a process? Its protection is done by the deposit of patent.

Is your innovation a business? Have you invested in new products or new activities? Your work in marketing and development of the market can be protected by registering a trademark.

Is your innovation aesthetic? Have you invested in designing your products? Their protection go through the registration of the design.

Services

Patent 42 provides concrete and careful solutions in the area of patents, trademarks and designs. We support you in all stages of elaboration and implementation of an industrial property strategy adapted to your needs at both national and international level.

Patent 42 can represent you before the Intellectual Property Offices of Luxembourg, Belgium and France but also before international offices such as the European Patent Office (EPO), the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Benelux Office for the Intellectual Property (BOIP) and the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO).

Moreover, Patent 42 benefits from a European and international network of foreign correspondents, selected for their professionalism and expertise.

Our team

Valerie MELLET
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Valérie MELLET

Conseil en Propriété industrielle Luxembourgeois (IP attorney in Luxembourg)
European Patent Attorney
European and Benelux Trademark and design AttorneyAuthorized representative before the French and the Belgian Patent Office

Area of expertise: Chemistry, Polymers Chemistry, Agronomics, Biochemistry, Mechanics

Language: French, English

Valérie is the founding and managing partner of PATENT42. She holds a master degree in Structural Biochemistry graduated from the University of Strasbourg (France). She also holds the CEIPI diploma in patents, trademarks and designs and the CEIPI diploma in Patent Litigation in Europe. Before the launch of her own firm in 2014, she worked during several years in private practices in France and in Luxembourg, and in the industry in Belgium.

She can act on all IP related matters such as: IP counseling and advising business for the development of the patent’s strategy and for the enforcement of the patent’s rights; the draft of agreements on IP matters, the draft of patent applications, prosecution of patent, trademark and design applications, oppositions, oral proceedings before the EPO, freedom to operate. She is an EPI tutor for the education and training of junior patent specialists. She occasionally lectures on IP topics.

She is a native speaker in French and speaks fluently English. She is a member of FCPIL, EPI and AIPPI.

Beside intellectual property, her main interests are her family, photography and travelling.
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Peter HENSENNE

European Patent Attorney
Luxembourgish Patent Attorney
PhD in chemistry

Area of expertise: Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Mechanics

Language: French, English

Peter holds a PhD concerning the development of a catalytic system onto a nanosurface of silicon and has further developed his skills in organic chemistry in homogeneous catalysis. Peter also holds a post-graduate degree in medicine development sciences.

Peter can act on IP related matters such as: advising client on the patent’s strategy, performing prior art search, drafting patent applications and prosecution on patent applications.

Alongside IP, Peter is interested in outdoor activities, especially cycling.
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Cyrille ROUSSEAU

European Patent Attorney
Luxembourgish Patent Attorney
CEIPI Diploma on Patent Litigation in Europe
Engineer in Industry

Area of expertise: Mechanics, Computer Implemented Invention (CII)

Language: French, English, German

Cyrille holds an engineering degree from the ENSAM – Paris. His domain of expertise covers inventions involving computer programs. Cyrille focusses on inventions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), notably Machine Learning (ML). His activities cover the aircraft domain and the automotive domain.

Cyrille provides services in patent drafting, patent examination, and freedom to operate studies. He has a strong experience in EP, US, CN, LU, BE, FR patents.

Photography is one of his main hobbies. Besides this, he practices cycling.
Vanessa GIORDANO

Vanessa GIORDANO

Intellectual Property Lawyer
European Trademark and Design Attorney
Luxembourg IP Attorney
Intellectual Property Lawyer

Language: French, English

Vanessa is an Intellectual Property Lawyer. She graduated from the University of Lille.
She owns a master degree in Business Law with a specialization in Intellectual Property and Innovation Strategy.
She has been working in the retail industry, within the trademark’s department of an international company before improving her English for one year in Australia.
Then she has been working for an Intellectual Property Office for 9 years, before joining Patent 42 in 2023.

Her activities are mainly directed to trademark issues (availability search, oppositions, preparation, filing and prosecution of applications, coexistence agreements, etc), designs rights, drafting and negotiating contracts relating to Intellectual Property, and issues in relation to Domain Names.

She likes travelling, scuba-diving when she has the opportunity and spending time with her family.
Isabelle DAÏRA

Isabelle DAÏRA

Secretary and Paralegal

Area of expertise: Validation, Filing and granting procedures, Annuity, etc.

Language: French, English, Spanish

Isabelle is specialized in the validation proceedings, annuity payment and all kinds of secretary and paralegal works.

She enjoys to spend time with her family, travelling and is a true film-lover.
Romain ARNAL

Romain ARNAL

Paralegal

Area of expertise: Filing and granting procedures, Annuity, …

Language: French, English
Sylvie FUSS

Sylvie FUSS

Secretary and Paralegal

Area of expertise: Validation, Filing and granting procedures, Annuity, …

Language: French, English, German
Jana DAÏRA

Jana DAÏRA

Paralegal

Area of expertise: Filing and granting procedures

Language: French, English