António Campinos is a Portuguese civil servant. He is the seventh and current president of the European Patent Office (EPO), a post he took up on 1 July 2018 for a five-year term.[1][2][3][4][5] He was re-elected in 2022 for a second five-year term, which started on 1 July 2023.[6][7] Before heading the EPO, he was executive director of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) from 1 October 2010 to 2018.[8][9][10] Before 2010, he was in charge of Portugal's National Institute of Industrial Property.[10] He is also a French citizen.[4]
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- ^ "António Campinos secures second EPO term amid staff protests". JUVE Patent. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
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- ^ "The Office". EUIPO. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
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- ^ a b Wild, Joff (July 4, 2017). "The Battistelli era will soon be over at the EPO; perhaps the current EUIPO boss is being lined up to succeed him". Intellectual Asset Management (IAM). Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
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