Bart Laenen
anaesthesiology
Progress Pharma
Belgium
Biography
Bart is a European Patent Attorney and master in Biochemistry, PhD in Sciences. He was a patent attorney at Janssen Pharmaceutica NV for more than eight years, with the full responsibility in the daily management, including drafting, filing and worldwide prosecution, of a patent portfolio consisting for approximately 40% of Biotech cases and 60% of MedChem cases. He started as independent consultant with LC Patents in March 2007, mainly focusing on small / medium-sized life science companies in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Research Interest
His current scope of activities includes drafting, filing and prosecution of patent applications, freedom-to-operate opinions, patentability assessments, validity opinions, non-infringement opinions, oppositions, and IP contract review. Bart lectures on different aspects of intellectual property at the University of Antwerp and the University of Hasselt and has been invited as speaker on seminars from C5 International and Leuven Inc.
