Alexandrine (Alex) has experience of acting in multi-jurisdictional patent litigation relating to a broad range of technologies such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, energy, aeronautics and telecommunications. She has also advised clients in copyright, industrial designs and trademarks law.
Before joining EIP, Alex worked for a Magic Circle firm in Paris where she focused her practice on cross-border pharmaceutical patent litigation and French and European regulatory law. Prior to that she was an IP Associate at a top boutique IP law firm and then in-house at a top international insurance company.
Alex has a degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Cambridge University and an LL.M from UC Berkeley. She has been published in a scientific peer-reviewed journal and the legal press. She also lectures in intellectual property at business schools and has spoken at international conferences on pharmaco-epidemiology.
Published articles
- 1 July 2011
Drugs and Aging Journal, Variation over time in the association between polypharmacy and mortality in the older population (link)
Education and qualifications
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2015
Registered European Lawyer -
2013
Admitted to the Paris Bar -
2012
Admitted to the New York Bar -
2011
Admitted to the Quebec Bar -
2009 — 2010
LL.M in Intellectual Property, focus on patent litigation, University of California, Berkeley -
2008 — 2009
M.Phil in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Cambridge -
2006 — 2008
LL.B, Université de Montréal -
2002 — 2005
BSc in Life Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
Career history
- 2015 — present
Associate, EIP - 2013 — 2015
Associate, Allen & Overy, Paris - 2011 — 2012
Associate, Smart & Biggar
Languages spoken
- French (Fluent)
- Italian (Fluent)
- English (Fluent)
- Spanish (Basic)
Speaking engagements
- 2012
North American Congress of Epidemiology,