Jean-Paul is the manager of the Patents Team at IPSILON in Luxembourg (Lecomte & Partners, Distinctive).

He is a European Patent & Trademark Attorney, as well as a Conseil en Propriété Industrielle (Patent Attorney) in Luxembourg, who has been advising his clients on Intellectual Property matters, particularly related to electronics, telecommunications and computer implemented inventions since 2008.

He holds a communication systems engineering degree (M.Sc.) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL. He also detains a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, obtained at the EPFL’s Signal Processing Institute. In 2009, Jean-Paul further obtained the post-graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law from Queen Mary, University of London.

In 2018, he completed the University Degree on Patent Litigation in Europe at the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies, CEIPI, of the University of Strasbourg in France.  This qualification allows him to represent his clients before the Unified Patent Court.

A Luxembourg native, Jean-Paul is fluent in Luxembourgish, English, French and German. He has experience in successfully representing his clients before the European Patent Office, EPO, and its Boards of Appeal in all of the EPO’s official languages, in both written and oral proceedings.

Jean-Paul is a member of the International Federation of IP attorneys, FICPI, the Luxembourg section of AIPPI, and of the Luxembourg Federation of IP attorneys, FCPIL.

Didier has a master in mechanical and electrical engineering of the University of Liège (Belgium). He has also specialized in applied thermodynamics during one year at the University of Aachen (Germany).

He has then worked seven years as patent examiner at the European Patent Office in Munich, carrying out prior art searches, examining patent applications, oppositions and chairing oral proceedings.

Didier has then joined a private practice in 2005 to eventually found Lecomte & Partners in 2007. He has also specialized in trademark and design registration. He is a European Patent Attorney, European and Benelux Trademark Attorney and authorized representative at the Luxembourg Patent Office and the Belgium Patent Office.

His field of activities covers all IP matters, including the drafting of patent applications, preparing replies to examination reports, prosecuting oppositions, carrying out prior art searches and IP counseling. He regularly lectures on various IP topics.

Didier has been awarded in 2019 the QPIP certification (Qualified Patent Information Professional) acknowledging his ability to correctly perform patent searches (prior art searches, freedom to operate, opposition/invalidation searches…) and to properly analyse the results of searches.

His mother tongue is French and he speaks fluently English and German. He is member of FICPI, AIPPI and EPI (member of Patent Qualification Committee).

Amine graduated with a Master’s degree in engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France) in 2021, and has concomitantly completed a three-year apprenticeship program at a major German automotive supplier.

He joined Lecomte & Partners in 2021. His main areas of work include drafting patent applications and performing prior art searches. He is also involved in the prosecution of patent applications and oppositions.

His native language is French and he is fluent in English and Arabic. He has some knowledge of German.

Yves is the manager of the Trademark and Design Team at IPSILON in Luxembourg (Lecomte & Partners, Distinctive).

Passionate about alpine skiing, Yves has chosen DISTINCTIVE+IPSILON as his new playground for testing his off-piste skills in order to handle your files from the steepest angles. His Italian roots make him a great lover of fine cuisine. Yves has been working for 10 years as a European Trademark and Design Attorney, as well as a Luxembourg IP attorney, representing companies active in various fields of activity such as cosmetics, board gaming and catering. He passed his master degree in law at the University of Liège, and pursued with a specialised master in European competition and Intellectual property law. Belgian of origin, Yves works in French and in English. He also would be happy to assist you in Italian.

Mélanie is an Intellectual Property Lawyer. She graduated from the University of Lyon 3. She owns a master degree in Intellectual Property Law. Within the framework of her studies, she studied one year in Stockholm.
After working in other firms of patent and trademark attorneys since 2012, she joined Lecomte & Partners in 2015.
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.

Her mother tongue is French and she speaks fluently English.

Tania is administrative assistant for all IP procedural aspects, i.e. essentially for patents, trademarks and designs. She has over 20 years of experience as secretary and paralegal in an international private practice.

She monitors the prosecution of all applications and the related time limits, including the annuities and renewals. She deals also with all related kinds of secretary and paralegal work.

Her mother tongue is Italian and she speaks fluently Luxembourgish, German, French and English.

Marco graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in private law, economics & management from the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Montpellier in 2020. After acquiring experience in compliance, Marco joined Lecomte & Partners in December 2022.

He is mainly in charge of filing new applications and extensions, monitoring prosecution of all applications and related time limits. He also handles other relevant paralegal and secretary work. His mother tongues are Luxembourgish and Portuguese, and he speaks fluently English, German, French and Spanish.

Corina is a graduate of Economics with an experience as accountant in Romania, France and Luxembourg. She joined IPSILON GROUP in 2023.

Her mother tongue is Romanian and she speaks fluently French, English and Hungarian.

Alex is a graduate of Law and Economics with over 10 years’ experience in the legal field. After working for 5 years in Intellectual Property at an International IP Service provider, Alex joined Lecomte & Partners in November 2021.

He is in charge of the administrative work related to patents, trademarks and designs. He handles the communication with our clients and foreign associates, monitors the prosecution of all applications and the related time limits, payment of the annuities and renewals, files recordal of changes and validations of European patents.

His mother tongue is Romanian and he speaks fluently English. He also has a basic knowledge of French and Spanish.