Christian Archambeau officially starts top job at EUIPO
Christian Archambeau, the former deputy executive director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), has today become executive director of the office.
Archambeau has been serving as acting executive director of the EUIPO since the former director, António Campinos, began his term as president of the European Patent Office (EPO) in July.
On July 13, the Permanent Representatives Committee, which is responsible for preparing the work of the European Council, voted to recommend Archambeau as executive director.
Archambeau’s succession was previously well received by practitioners, who said they hope he will be a “safe pair of hands” amid Brexit turmoil.
The European Council confirmed his appointment on September 17 and, today, October 1, Archambeau began serving as executive director.
Archambeau served as the EUIPO’s deputy executive director for more than seven years, before which he served as principal director of human resources at the EPO.
He also worked at the European Space Agency for more than 15 years in various management positions.
As deputy executive director at the EUIPO, Archambeau oversaw the introduction of “activity-based budgeting and management” and process simplifications that helped contribute to substantial annual cost efficiency gains, according to a press release from the EUIPO.
“This enabled the EUIPO to cope with major growth in workload from EU trademark and design registrations while also taking on increased international cooperation activities, and developing the European Observatory on Infringements of IP Rights,” said the release.
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