Alain Dumont has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in November 2023. His technical focus is in electronics.
Professional Experience in Intellectual Property
November 1989 - September 2004: European Patent Office (EPO) substantive examiner (main technical fields: digital electronic circuits and coding) and auditor in the "Harmonisation and Quality" Directorate
2004 - 2005: EPO Boards of Appeal: assistant to Board 3.5.1 (main technical field: computer-implemented inventions)
October 2005 - October 2023: EPO Boards of Appeal: technical member of Board 3.5.04 (main technical fields: image processing and transmission)
Professional Experience in Science
1986-1988: assistant at Laboratoire d’Électronique (UCL, Belgium)
1989: engineer at the Régie des Télégraphes & Téléphones (now Belgacom)
