Alain Pompidou is the first Frenchman to be president of the EPO, and the first non-lawyer. Son of the former president of France, Georges Pompidou, he was born in Paris in 1942. He studied medicine ...
Protecting patents has a central role to play in Europe's knowledge economy and EU competitiveness, European Patent Office President Alain Pompidou told the annual EPO online services conference in ...