Judge at the Court of Appeal, United Patent Court, LU

Emmanuel Gougé has been a judge with the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court since 2024, where he sits in Panel 1 of the Court as a legally qualified judge.Before joining the Unified Patent Court, Emmanuel was a patent litigator in private practice. He led the Paris-based intellectual property team of an international law firm, where he had been one of the founding partners of its Paris office. His career began in 1994 in Paris and Brussels, and he gained experience working across several European jurisdictions.With a professional background in France, England, Germany and Belgium, and being qualified both in England & Wales (solicitor) and in France (avocat), Emmanuel has been involved in a range of multi-jurisdictional patent litigations in various sectors.Since 2020, Emmanuel has been the Director of the Diploma on Patent Litigation in Europe at CEIPI (Center for international intellectual property studies, University of Strasbourg), a leading European postgraduate program for senior patent professionals.Over the past two decades, he has also been actively involved in the management of several international professional associations and has been an author of a number of publications in patent and intellectual property law.Emmanuel graduated from the College of Law (London) in 1997, completing his legal studies in Paris and Munich (Université Paris II, Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law, major in Patent Law, 1992 / French-German Master of German Law and Business Law, LudwigMaximilians-Universität and Université Paris II ,1991), and obtained a diploma in Economics and Finance in 1993 (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, major in Economics and Finance, Paris).