Curriculum Vitae - Alain Gallochat

Adviser, Ministry of Research, France

Prior to his appointment as adviser at the Ministry of Research, Mr. Gallochat spent thirteen years at Institut Pasteur, Paris, as General Counsel. He was previously an Industrial Property Manager in a French pharmaceutical company and a patent agent in a private practice.

Mr. Gallochat's other responsibilities include being Associate Professor at Panthéon Assas - University of Paris II, European Patent Attorney before the European Patent Office (Munich), European Trademark Attorney before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), President of the Patents Commission of the Union of European Practitioners in Industrial Property, and lecturer at the Centre Paul-Roubier, Lyon, Higher Institute of Technology and Management (ISTM), and the Institut de recherche en propriété intelectuelle (IRPI), both in Paris. NATO expert for Intellectual Property matters, and European Commission expert for Intellectual Property matters.

Mr. Gallochat has co-authored La brevetabilité des innovations biotechnologiques appliquées à l'Homme with Marie-Catherine Chemtob. His other writing credits include : author or co-author of reports for national authorities (in France : Minister of National Education, Research & Technology, Minister of Industry ; in Canada : Federal Government), and author of articles concerning Industrial Property issues, especially in the biotech field (Le Monde, Les Echos, La Recherche, Réalités industrielles, Patent World, European Brief, Dossiers Brevets, Revue du Droit de la Propriété Industrielle).

Mr. Gallochat graduated in Industrial Property from the Centre d'Études Internationales de la propriété intellectuelle (CEIPI), and also in Chemistry from the École nationale superieure de chimie, both in Strasbourg. He has received the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.