Alain Pompidou is the first Frenchman to be president of the EPO, and the first non-lawyer. Son of the former president of France, Georges Pompidou, he was born in Paris in 1942. He studied medicine ...

European Patent Organization President Alain Pompidou hit back at criticism of Europe’s patent regime from parts of the software industry Tuesday, with assurances that software per se cannot be ...

Protecting patents has a central role to play in Europe's knowledge economy and EU competitiveness, European Patent Office President Alain Pompidou told the annual EPO online services conference in ...

European Patent Organization President Alain Pompidou hit back at criticism of Europe’s patent regime from parts of the software industry Tuesday, with assurances that software per se cannot be ...