Biography

Thomas LECONTE has worked for five and a half years as a patent engineer and as a European patent attorney in a French IP law firm, focusing on patent prosecution before the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI, French Industrial Property Office), mainly in the mechanical fields. He joined the Patent Department of abello in 2020. He has been qualified as a European patent attorney since 2017, and has served on an Examination Committee of the EPO’s European Qualifying Examination (EQE) in 2021 and 2022.