Yves Lapierre is a French
civil servant
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, who was the ''directeur général'' (chief executive officer) of the French
National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI, standing for ''Institut national de la propriété industrielle'' in
French
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), the national intellectual property office of France, in charge of patents, trademarks and industrial design rights, from 2010 to 2016.
Lapierre graduated from the
École Polytechnique
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* an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée)
* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
and received a PhD in Physics. Prior to becoming head of the INPI, he notably worked at the ''
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and security ...
'' (CEA, en, Atomic Energy Commission) and at
AREVA
Areva S.A. is a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through the French Alternative Energies and Atom ...
's subsidiary Technicatome (TA), from which he resigned as CEO in 2010.
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Yves Lapierre
at Who's Who in France
French civil servants
Living people
21st-century French civil servants
Year of birth missing (living people)
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