Georges Jean Gabriel Vianès is a former French

France

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 civil servant, corporate officer and politician

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. He was head of the French National Intellectual Property Institute (INPI, standing for Institut national de la propriété industrielle in French

French language

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), the French national intellectual property office from 1975 to 1982. He was also the first Chairman of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation

Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation

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, from 19 October 1977 to 18 October 1981.

From 1982 to 1984, he was chief executive officer (French: Président directeur général, PDG) of Banque Worms, a French bank. From 1989 to 1991 he was the Head of Administration of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. From 1995 to 2001, he was mayor of Ferney-Voltaire

Ferney-Voltaire

Ferney-Voltaire is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.It lies between the Jura mountains and the Swiss border and forms part of the metropolitan area of Geneva.-History:...

, a commune in the Ain

Ain

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 département

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of eastern France

France

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. He also held the post of senior counselor at the French Court of Financial Auditors, the Cour des Comptes

Cour des Comptes

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, ("Conseiller maître à la Cour de Comptes") until his retirement on June 18, 2007.

Published works

• The New French Patent Law, 11 IIC
  International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
  The International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law , formerly International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law, is a review published by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, based in Munich, Germany. There are eight issues per...
  
  131, 132 (1980)
• Brevet européen : les enjeux de l'accord de Londres, Secrétariat d'Etat à l'industrie, Paris, 2001, 239 pages (pdf)