Yann DIETRICH

En résumé

Entreprises

• Areva T&D - Intellectual Property Legal Director

  2009 - maintenant Reporting to the Vice President Legal/General Counsel and the Senior VP in charge of Innovation and Performance Improvement, my primary responsability is to drive and implement the Intellectual Property strategy of Areva T&D in terms of protection, assertion and licensing with a functional responsability on all IP teams within the company.

• LiMo Foundation (London - UK) - General Counsel

  2008 - 2009 Based in UK, reporting to the Executive Director, I created the legal function of this industrial consortium funded by Motorola, NEC, NTT Docomo, Orange, Panasonic, Samsung and Vodafone and now with a membership of more than 50 companies unified to create the first truly open Linux-based operating system for Mobile devices. I was managing our team of external counsels and the open source manager
  
  Participating to the Board of Directors, with the Officers, we reshaped the corporate governance to streamline our decision making process and improve the competitiveness of our multi-cultural organization incorporated under Delaware Laws, especially with complex antitrust aspects due to the nature of our organization.
  
  With the chair of our Open Source Committee, I defined our open source strategy/policy and I managed our open source compliance program.
  
  I also implemented the complex IPR policy of LiMo foundation covering both patent and software aspects.

• Intel Corporation (Swindon - UK) - EMEA Chief IP counsel

  2005 - 2008 Based in UK (Swindon) I created the IP function in EMEA, responsible for providing support on a wide range of intellectual property matters including patent and technology licensing, R&D agreements and technological partnerships.
  
  I managed also the representation of Intel in standards organizations such as ETSI or DVB in EMEA and I was a key contributor in the adoption by ETSI of voluntary ex-ante disclosure of licensing terms
  
  More broadly, I developed the IP policy function in EMEA, being elected as the chairman of the IPR group of the EU ICT Trade association and I represented this industry and Intel in various high-level EU discussions e.g. European patent litigation system in EU, IPR & standards/interoperability
  
  As part of the global team in charge of Wireless IP (e.g. WiMAX, LTE), I participated to several key initiatives as lead counsel for some of them (e.g. NGMN, negotiation of potential joint-ventures…)

• France Telecom (Paris - France) - Head of IP&Technology dept / Group IP legal dept

  2000 - 2005 After two years as Licensing counsel, I was promoted as the managing counsel of the team of Licensing counsels (5), reporting myself to the Director of the IPR Division (François Jamet) and the Group IP Legal Director.
  
  In addition to the management of the legal support of all IPR activities of France Telecom Group (200,000 employees incl. 5000 researchers), my main achievements are:
  - The creation and co-management of the first home made licensing about Turbo codes generating very substantial licensing revenues
  - The definition, as part of the management team of the IPR Division, of the overall IP strategy and operations of France Telecom/Orange
  - The structuring of the licensing counsels team supporting all various IP activities within the licensing division (e.g. support of licensing activities incl. patent pools, lPR litigation as well as other business groups (e.g. Sourcing division, specific product initiative such as Livebox)
  - The representation of France Telecom in numerous Standardization activities and especially through the participation to the Board of OMA co-leading a lobbying campaign in liaison with other operators to defend their specific interests and the evolution of IPR rules accordingly
  - The definition of a comprehensive IPR policy for various type of R&D partnerships incl. the re-negotiation of all agreements with major universities in France and abroad, support for all labs in Japan, China, US and Poland, Joint-venture in China
  - With the strategic partnerships division, the definition of a new way of collaborating with our major partners and negotiation of partnerships agreements with major companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Intel, Motorola …
  - Handling with my team of numerous pre-litigation and litigation both offensive, and defensive, in France, Gerrmany, United States …

• Groupe des ecoles des telecommunications (Paris - France) - IP legal counsel

  1999 - 2000 Reporting to the Director of Research, my primary responsibility has been to define a protection strategy of all intellectual assets of this R&D public center, and the following of the filing and prosecution of patent application in France and in the world. I was also in charge of the drafting and negotiating, of R&D agreement such as FP5 IST consortium agreement, of licensing agreement such as IP rights license and assignment

• Cabinet GEFIB (Paris - France) - Patent & trademark legal counsel

  1997 - 1999 Recruited as the only lawyer of such firm, I was mainly in charge of the management of a trademark portfolio for pharmaceutical companies as well as supporting various patent licensing and litigation efforts in closed collaboration with patent engineers, and various litigations of trademark. In addition, I developed a clientele around Internet: domain names litigation, counsel on hypertext issues and E commerce in the pharmaceutical field.

Formations

Pas de formation renseignée

Réseau

• Edmond-Claude FRETY

• Jean-Denis MARX

• Pierre-Aimé DESPALLE

• Pierre-Roch MOULLEC

• Sandrine ROUJA

• Xavier-Franck BRAUD