Reliability and humanity are two qualities that characterize the best

Yesterday, Benoît Battistelli left the headquarters of Director-General of the national Institute of industrial property (Inpi) he had held since 2004, in Paris. This morning, the French expert par excellence takes place in the Chair of President of the European (EPO) Patent Office in Munich. Elected to this highly strategic function for the France last March, he assumes a role his stature feel exciting to perform its European destiny. A "gift" earned twelve days of the sixtieth anniversary of this man to the strong personality, tempered by an appearance reserved, inspires deep respect to his foreign counterparts.

"I always located at the interaction between the State and industry, because I think that a country's competitiveness is both one of its companies and its public policies," said Benoît Battistelli, who knows the intricacies of the EPO long. It is also a meeting of the Board of Directors in Munich that saw him at work for the first time in 2004, Antonio Campinos, President of the Portuguese industrial property Office. "The hour was delicate." The Council was engaged in a strategic debate and strong objections expressed by the States on the future of the organization. "A compromise was finally found by Benoît Battistelli essential intervention", recalls Antonio Campinos, who then discovered "an adversary of size that both will only yield principles and known to deal in the general interest".

Fidelity without fault

Benoît Battistelli fidelity to the public service is never denied. After his release from the ENA in 1978, this literary, who said having his keen sense of synthesis to the Professor of philosophy, chooses to enter the Ministry of economy and finance to a historic turning where the France opens to competition. Its first weapons European bargaining it keener hotly discussing the prices of agricultural products. Then integrating the management of external economic relations, he revealed himself a field man who spend body and soul to support the development of the international French companies. Always returning to Paris, his birthplace, between two economic missions in Poland, Italy, India or Turkey: "It is vital to keep in touch with reality," he says. At the end of the 1990s, this senior official will be at the heart of the cultural marriage between technocrats of Bercy and the engineers of the Ministry of industry. In the common birthplace, he will discover the richness of industrial property, which will now be his battle horse, but without ever compromising on moral values. "Reliability and humanity are two qualities that characterize the best." "In our random world, regularity and listening are rare forces" reflects Marc-Antoine Jamet, Secretary General of LVMH, who went to see a day of 2002 Benoît Battistelli to expose to the Deputy Director of the Office of Nicole Fontaine the concerns of the Group of luxury on counterfeiting in China.

Since his first "aesthetic shock" in fifteen years, to an array of Turner at the National Gallery, London, culture is also the backdrop of his private life and the fetish of the Mayor folder assistant Laye. With intact juvenile enthusiasm, Benoît Battistelli tackles today the extensive construction of the competitiveness of European industry on the international scene.