Professor Nicolas BINCTIN (CV)
Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Poitiers, where he manages a postgraduate program on Research and Innovation Development Law and a postgraduate program on IP Law. Nicolas Binctin teaches Business and Intellectual Property Law in its various components, in Universities of Poitiers, Paris XII-UPEC, and Paris II Assas-Panthéon. He has been invited professor since 2015 by the Academy of Organisation Africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (OAPI) in Yaoundé, Cameroun, the Louvain La Neuve University, Belgium, and the Djibouti University, and visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. He is regularly invited to lecture at many conferences all over the world. Author of a thesis entitled Le capital intellectuel, he has published many articles in French and English, a monography on Corporate strategy and IP, and the 6th edition of his Law book on French and European IP law, published in September 2020, as well as many key contributions on Trade Secret and Secret knowledge following the implementation of the EU Directive 2016/943.