William E. Bird

One of the founder partners of BIRD GOËN & Co. William Bird is British and was educated at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK.

Competence

He has an MA in Natural Sciences including Biology of cells, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

Experience

He has worked in industry in the major activities of development, marketing, product and project management from which he has obtained a wide experience of the requirements and functioning of an industrial company.

He is a qualified British, German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney and hence has a unique expertise in both common law and codified legal systems.

He has experience of being both a corporate and an independent patent attorney. This experience has provided valuable insight into the expectations and requirements of both. He also has extensive experience in licensing of IPR and consulting on IP aspects of setting up spin-off companies. Based on these experiences, he is an accredited tutor of the Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) for licensing and IP asset management.

He is also a lecturer on various aspect of patent law, e.g. at the CEIPI course on European Patent Law, the Vlerick course of Management and Entrepreneurship, and in the ULB PharmEd program.