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Entrepreneuriat<br />
Combining security,<br />
pleasure and creativity<br />
Fifty years after it was created, Office Freylinger is a team of 45 people dedicated to<br />
their profession and driven by human values. The six members of the management<br />
team look back on the firm’s accomplishments to date with pride, keen to capitalise on<br />
these solid bases to secure abetter future.<br />
“<br />
The human dimension,<br />
the opportunity to work with<br />
fine, competent people, with<br />
mutual trust and respect,<br />
is a winning asset that makes<br />
many envious of us<br />
”<br />
Fifty years after it was created, Office<br />
Freylinger relies on a large team. What<br />
is its distinctive feature?<br />
Jean Beissel: Today, we have the chance to rely<br />
on a team of 45 people who come from very different<br />
backgrounds: engineers and lawyers, but<br />
also paralegal staff who follow up the different<br />
cases. Because our field is highly specific and<br />
specialised, we recruit people with widely varied<br />
profiles, whom we then train in house. Beyond<br />
skills, however, we make sure that our clients<br />
and employees can benefit from a multicultural<br />
environment in terms of the languages spoken<br />
here and the origin of each and everyone.<br />
How do you explain pleasure in this<br />
context?<br />
Pierre Kihn: It is connected to the passion<br />
we all have for our profession. We like what<br />
we do and take a great deal of pleasure in<br />
doing it. It is an essential factor that enables<br />
us to serve our customers, their development,<br />
and their ideas optimally on a daily<br />
basis. This passion is directly perceptible in<br />
the relations we maintain with our clients<br />
who, we hope, have as much pleasure in<br />
working with us as we do in working with<br />
them.<br />
What are the values that drive this group?<br />
Pierre Kihn: We base our development on three<br />
key values: security, pleasure and creativity. The<br />
field of intellectual property protection is often<br />
seen as being very formalized and even austere.<br />
This is not our view, and that is the reason, we<br />
think, that verymany clients like to work with us.<br />
Intellectual property entails having<br />
recourse to many formal elements<br />
and at times complex legal notions.<br />
How is creativity expressed in such a<br />
field?<br />
Olivier Laidebeur: By providing appropriate,<br />
customized solutions to meet the<br />
needs of our clients. Intellectual property<br />
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<strong>LG</strong> - Avril 2017
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