Michel GAUCHERAND

holds a Chemical Engineering degree and is an authorized representative to the European Patent Office, the INPI, and the OHMI. He is the founder of IXAS Conseil, and its managing director. He also tought at the Lyon Chemical Engineering Graduate School, and gave numerous seminars on Intellectual Property Right and associated protection strategy.

Specific capabilities :
Designing protection strategies for industrial coporations, guiding RTD for optimized patent protection and broadest possible coverage,
Assisting in transfer of technologies in respect to the legal dimension,
Assessing right of practice and creating domains of freedom in view of third party rights,
Drafting and defending of patents,

In depth knowledge of the following industries :
  • chemical and plastics (production and converting) industries,
  • chemical, electro-metallurgical, minerals,
  • preparation of ores,
  • aluminium, rare earth, mineral fillers

Previous professional experience :
Michel pursued his career (33 years) first in production and R & D, before moving to Industrial Property Management Departments in the following firms, leading ultimately the IPR strategies :


Rhône Poulenc:

Building Chemistry, Refractory products, Mineral Fibres,
Water Treatment, Organic synthesis, Textiles and para textiles

Pechiney Ugine Kuhlman and subsidiaries (Sogerem, Minatome, Aluminium Pechiney, Cime Bocuze, Trefimetaux, Uranium Pechiney, Comuhrex, Ugine acier, Eurotungstene):

Mines, quarries and ores, (extraction, crushing, washing, flotation, sewage purification, transport) in bauxite, alumino-silicates, uranium
Minerals : Treatment of ores through chemical, electro-chemical and physical ways (aluminium, silicium, copper, magnesium, uranium, molybdenum, tungsten, lithium, germanium, plutonium, lanthanide) and alloys.
Other fields :
Transport through fluidized bed, separation technologies, electro-osmosis, process water treatment
Transformation technologies of metals into half-finished products, refractory products.

Plus Stauffer and subsidiaries (Omya, Multibase, Coatex):

Chemistry of water soluble grinding, dispersion and flotation agents, water treatment
Pigment grinding, production of fillers and their surface treatment, application of mineral fillers to pigments, plastics, paints, paper.

He conceived and defended major patents on process and technologies for the above mentioned Industrial Groups and was instrumental in opening up critical legally blocked positions.