March 2010
On 1 March, 2010, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation elected the next president of the EPO – Benoît Battistelli (FR).
Mr Battistelli is Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property. His five-year term as President of the EPO will begin on 1 July 2010.
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