Pietrer CallensPieter Callens (1980) is an attorney-at-law specialising in intellectual property law (with a special focus on patent law) at the Belgian law firm Eubelius. He has developed extensive expertise in different matters of intellectual property law and unair competition. He obtained a Master in Law at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and a Master in Economic Law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). During his law education, Pieter studied US patent law as an exchange student at Duke University (North Carolina, USA). In his previous professional life, Pieter was advisor to the Belgian Minister of Economy with respect to intellectual property matters. Pieter advised the Belgian Presidency of the European Union in 2010 when the European Council reached a political compromise on the language regime of the unitary patent. Pieter is a member of AIPPI and the Advisory Board for Intellectual Property to the Federal Belgian Ministry of Economy. He has written several publications on Belgian intellectual property law. Read More Read Less