Head of the French Patent and Trademark Office (INPI)
Philippe Borne is the head of the French Patent and Trademark Office (INPI) branch office in Strasbourg. Qualified as a pharmaceutical doctor, he joined INPI in 1986 to participate in the design of the Pharmsearch pharmaceutical patent database, a project also involving the Questel-Orbit and Derwent companies. Mr. Borne later became deputy manager of the INPI IP search service before joining the regional branch department of INPI in 2008. His main tasks involve raising the awareness of businesses, especially SMEs and startups, about intellectual property and to get them to implement an active IP policy. Patent analytics is one of the subjects he has to monitor as part of his missions. He is a member of the board of the CFIB (the French-speaking patent information user group), and in June 2021, he joined the group of experts of the EPO Patlib network. His current activity allows him to interact with entrepreneurs, IP practitioners, and the whole network of those structures whose objective is to support innovation and the development of businesses. He recently started focusing on the geostrategic aspects of IP.