Julien Pichon
European and French Patent Attorney, representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator), graduate engineer from SUPAERO ISAE. He also provides numerous trainings for engineering schools and companies. He has a pronounced taste for transmission and accompaniment. He also provides numerous missions of coaching and accompaniment for the development of IP strategies.
He started his career in aviation industry and in the numeric field, before he joined successively several large industrial property firms. In September 2017, he created his own IP firm: OAK & FOX.
At the present time, his fields of expertise cover computer systems, artificial intelligence, IOT, imaging, robotics and more generally mechanics. He developed a strong expertise particularly regarding technologies applied to the medical field, aviation, and ICTs.
Estelle Derval
Estelle Derval is a European and French patent attorney, representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator). After a master’s degree in physical chemistry at Pierre et Marie Curie University, she obtained a diploma of Advanced Study in image and signal processing applied to the medical field at University Paris XII. She is a CEIPI graduate.
During her first professional experiences, she developed technical skills in the field of electronics, medical imaging, medical devices, signal processing, optics and IOT. She worked within several organizations in order to specialize in the acquisition of patent rights, the management of foreign proceedings, the management of oppositions, the elaboration of studies of freedom to operate and of counterfeiting, and legal advice.
She then joined the OAK & FOX firm in 2021 to focus on legal support of innovative companies.
Julien Pied
Julien is European and French patent attorney, representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator), graduated of material engineer from ENSCBP.
He developed his technical skills as an engineer in the fields of semiconductors and automobile. After three years working within intellectual property firms, he acquired strong knowledge regarding the protection for inventions, in particular in the medical devices field and in the mechanical field. Julien also provides trainings in IP Law at the Gustave Eiffel University.
He then joined the OAK & FOX firm in 2019 to focus on legal support of innovative companies.
William Salinger
William Salinger is a European and French patent attorney, U.S. patent agent, representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator, graduate of Politecnico di Milano), is a mechanical and biomedical engineer with degrees from Georgia Tech and ENSAM, and has been named a “Rising Star” by Managing IP since 2023.
He began his professional career in research and development, working in robotics, medical devices, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. He switched to industrial property in 2015. In addition to the technical fields familiar to him from his training and research and development career, he works in industrial property in a wide range of technical fields such as aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, construction, electronics, sports equipment, additive manufacturing, energy management, imaging, instrumentation, software, microfluidics, optics, telecommunications, and more.
He joined several major French and international firms since 2015 before joining OAK & FOX in 2024.
Audrey Bigel
Audrey Bigel is paralegal manager in the firm.
After a master’s degree in modern literature, Audrey developed her skills in the field of communication. It is in an industrial property firm that she first addressed legal issues. At that time, she occupied several positions and developed strong legal skills as well as a good command of the quality & process. She also maintained an activity regarding internal and external communication. Finally, she took greater responsibilities at the head of the administrative department oriented toward patent filing in a large Parisian firm, in which she supervised and managed the activity of a paralegal service.
As for today, Audrey joined the OAK & FOX firm in 2020 to as close as possible to the legal activities of the innovative companies supported by the firm.
Théo Pavlin
Théo Pavlin is a graduate energy engineer from Mines ParisTech.
He acquired technical skills in thermodynamics, renewable energies, electronics, electricity, mechanics, and software. During a first professional experience of three years, Théo worked as an engineer in the field of industrial property in a large group in the railway sector. He carried out numerous missions such as prior-art search, patentability analysis and legal support for the inventors in the first steps of elaborating patent rights.
He then joined the OAK & FOX firm in 2020 to focus on legal support of innovative companies.
Aurélie Marteau
Aurélie MARTEAU is patent administrative manager within the firm.After a university specialization in Litterature, Foreign Languages and Civilizations (English), Aurélie developed skills as an executive assistant (in English language) provided by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris
It was initially within the Intellectual Property department of a large French industrial group that she assisted both the manager and the lawyers specialized in IP and discovered legal issues (contracts, registrations, licensing, valuation). She then joined an industrial and intellectual property firm in which she held various positions and developed legal skills, acquired expertise both in patent prosecutions and in legal support. Finally, the position of legal acts manager is entrusted to her in order to check and proofread contracts, supervise and follow up the registration procedures carried out by the firm’s paralegal team.
Aurélie has joined OAK & FOX in 2022 to be closer to the legal activity of the innovative companies that the firm supports.
Sophie Eveillard
Sophie Eveillard is a chemical engineer. She is a European and French patent attorney, representative before the Unified Patent Court (European Patent Litigator).
Sophie has over 20 years of experience as a patent engineer. Having supported numerous innovative companies through various firms, she has acquired solid experience in assisting the managers of innovative companies in defining industrial property acquisition and defense strategies. She is well versed in the sovereign tasks of industrial property consulting, namely conducting patentability studies, freedom-to-operate studies, drafting patent applications, and monitoring patent application examination procedures in France, Europe, and abroad in collaboration with local attorneys, in French and English.She also assists companies in opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO and carries out infringement and validity analyses. Today, she brings to OAK & FOX a strong expertise in the field of chemistry to assist innovative companies wishing to protect their innovations.