Team • Béatrice HOLTZ

Béatrice HOLTZ - Partner

Practice areas

Patent prosecution
Patent Litigation
Unfair Competition
Contracts
Strategy
Audit

Béatrice HOLTZ

Partner

European Patent Attorney | French Industrial Property Attorney | UPC Representative

FRANCE • GERMANY

Béatrice Holtz joined Lavoix in 2001 and has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2012. Specialist in Biology, Béatrice coordinates and oversees the collaborators in the Life Sciences center within the Firm.

Technology areas

Biotech - Lavoix

Biotech

Foodtech, agroalimentaire, nutrition et santé - Lavoix

Foodtech, agri-food, nutrition and health

Luxe & cosmétiques - Lavoix

Luxury & cosmetics

Pharmacie & medtech  - Lavoix

Pharmacy & medtech

Recherche publique, partenariats public/privé - Lavoix

Public research and public/private partnerships

Education

  • Master in Intellectual Property, 2017
  • “Patent Litigation in Europe”, 2016
  • Center of International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI), 2001
  • Ph.D., Biochemistry, 2000
  • Engineer, French School of Life Sciences (Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon), 1997

Professional experience

Béatrice advises and assists clients, whether they are academics, innovative companies or investors, in the field of life sciences in the broadest sense of the term, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, cellular biology, immunology, enzymology, microbiology, plant biology and the food industry.

She is involved in the protection and valorization of innovations, in particular through patentability studies, the constitution and strengthening of patent portfolios, European patent oppositions, and freedom-to-operate studies. Beatrice has also a strong expertise in the field of Supplementary Protection Certificates.
Béatrice also assists clients in pre-litigation and litigation proceedings relating on patent or partnership matters.

She regularly conducts audits on behalf of investors.