IP Compliance: Key Risks and Solutions in the Real and Virtual Worlds (with Nathalie Dreyfus, Founder & Manager of Dreyfus & Partners, and Nathalie Sabek, Head of Compliance, Financial Security and Know Your Customer Policy, BNP Paribas, France)

Codes of Business Conduct and Ethics Charters are powerful tools for companies to foster and re-affirm their culture of integrity and their values, based on compliance with laws and regulations. These inwards and outwards facing documents provide a framework of expectations relying on each of their employees, as well as on the other stakeholders, from shareholders to customers and suppliers. All business partners are on the same boat, sharing fundamental principles such as trust and commitment to the environment and to society at large, as responsible citizens.  

Intellectual property can have direct and indirect connections with compliance issues, as a vector of risk.  Think of counterfeiting or identity theft. Think of money laundering, where violation of IP ownership may help to easily launder proceeds of crime because of weak law enforcement and of the difficulty to determine the final destination of the financial flows. And needless to say that digital innovations, such as Web3, add another layer of complexity.

Our guests today will talk about the links between intellectual property and the key challenges they raise for businesses in all economic sectors from a compliance perspective.  Nathalie Dreyfus has been the founder and manager of the IP firm Dreyfus & Partners since 2004, based in Paris, France.  She advises her clients in all areas of intellectual property, from valorization to prosecution and enforcement matters in the real and virtual worlds.  Nathalie Sabek has been since 2015 the Head of Financial Security and Know Your Customer Policy at International Retail Banking of BNP Paribas, spanning across 15 countries. BNP Paribas, that she joined 23 years ago, is the leading bank in the European Union and a major international banking player, present in 65 countries, with more than 190k employees. She previously worked for African and United Arab Emirates banks notably as Head of Legal & Compliance, and started her career as an IP professional.

Brand & New is a production of the International Trademark Association
Hosted by Audrey Dauvet - Contribution of M. Halle & S. Lagedamond - Music by JD Beats

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To go further:

About Nathalie Sabek (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-sabek-5b8a9218a/?originalSubdomain=fr)
About Nathalie Dreyfus (link to https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-dreyfus-136862/)

Also of interest:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-handbook-of-compliance/intellectual-property-compliance-systematic-methods-for-building-and-using-intellectual-property/3DF56EA9272B72A3D600DCF3DA47474F