Elie René MISRAHI

Attorney at law admitted to the Bar of Paris

Fully Qualified in Intellectual Property
French PatentAttorney
European Trademark Attorney

Active Member of AIPPI, UNION (French delegate of the “biotech” commission).

Dipl. Eng. Institut National des Sciences Appliquées in 1974
Dipl. Institut Pasteur in General Microbiology in 1980

Languages : French, English & German

Elie René MISRAHI is an I.P. Attorney with a strong research background :

Research & Development head of department Lyonnaise des eaux (1981-1983)
Laboratory manager Institut Pasteur Production (1976-1981)
Research Engineer Institut Pasteur (1974-1976)

FOUNDER “MILESTONES” since 1974

Elie René MISRAHI is the son of Nessim Elie Misrahi who founded in 1932 “l’Office des Relations Commerciales"

Elie René MISRAHI, (ERM) started his career as a Research Engineer.

“Academic period” : 1974-1980


ERM has been working within Institut Pasteur Laboratories as a Biochemical Engineer in Applied Research in Biotechnology mainly making use of such technologies as Enzymology, Fermentation and Genetic Engineering.


As a member of a “pastorian team”, his works were successfully published in a scientific review and Institut Pasteur filed then a patent application which was derived from said team works. Accordingly there was a patent granted for a collagenase composition, notably helpful in the healing of heavily burned skin.


When he left Institut Pasteur in 1980, ERM was managing the fermentation laboratory of so-called Institut Pasteur Production.


Much later, in 1987, ERM was invited to visit Toho pharmaceutical, a japanese firm based in Osaka, that Institut Pasteur have licensed to produce said patented collagenase composition, one of his major achievements at Pasteur.




“ Manager in industry period” : 1980-1983

ERM had been hired by Jerôme MONOD, Lyonnaise des Eaux CEO, -nephew of Jacques MONOD, former Institut Pasteur CEO- with the mission of successfully create and manage, in the company facilities, its “biotech lab”.


“R & D Consultant period” : 1983-1985

ERM became a consultant for different private companies and in various areas : industry-university contracts, know-how + patent protection /product(s) or process(es) licensing in and/or out and patents portofolio valuation, technological and competitive watch etc…

“Our future is where our past is” is a slogan that ERM would rather make his !

Indeed, the periods described above correspond to the industrial background which formed the necessary and sufficient foundations on which ERM’s actual industrial property background is building up.

INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY BACKGROUND :

“Examiner of patents” period : 1985-1990
Within I.N.P.I, Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle :

- Examination as a French Examiner of the first patent application for a transgenic mouse. ( 3 pages / 109 - pdf files - 186 ko)
- Drafting of a special review on the protection of biotechnological inventions published as “INPI forum”
- Representing France for :

*Trilateral meetings (USPTO, JPO, O.E.B) on harmonising patent applications comprising DNA sequences or the like
*European BioDirective discussions within the European Community Commission (Brussels)
*WIPO Patent Law Harmonisation meetings (Geneva)

With the World Intellectual Property Organisation (W.I.P.O) :

- Lectures on legal aspects of the protection of biotechnological inventions


“Patent Engineer” period : 1990-1994 employee within OREAL, the world cosmetics leader, learning on a daily basis what is an international company strategy in I.P.



• I.P Councel "Conseil en Propriété Industrielle", private practice period : 1994 up to now.