Sophia BonneSophia Bonne is Team Leader of the IP Policy and Guidelines team at the International Cooperation and Legal Affairs Department of the EUIPO where she is in charge of defining policy in trademark and design matters. She is also a litigator befoe the Court of Justice of the EU. She is qualified as a mediator with the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is included in the list of EUIPO mediators in proceedings before the Boards of Appeal. She has extensive experience in the IP area including representing the position of the EUIPO before WIPO and before the European Council. She has been a member of the Boards of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office in Angers, France. Before joining the EUIPO, she was an attorney at law at a leading international law firm in Brussels. She holds degrees in Law from the universities of Namur, Leuven, Ferrara and was awarded with a DAAD scholarship for German Legal Studies. She has published various articles and has been a speaker at several events in the field of IP. Read More Read Less