Who is behind this website
An independent resource on the future European Innovation Act, written and edited by a practising lawyer who is also an academic researcher.
The author
Anthony Bochon
Anthony Bochon has been a member of the Brussels Bar since 2011, the year in which he obtained his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, after studying law in Belgium.
A business lawyer, his practice focuses mainly on economic law in the broadest sense, the regulation of new technologies and company and insolvency law. He also has extensive experience in intellectual property (particularly copyright and trademark law) and data protection. Anthony Bochon has extensive experience of pleading before Belgian courts and tribunals and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He pleads in French, Dutch and English.
As a lawyer seconded to an international conglomerate for several years and regularly appointed as a court-appointed agent by the French-speaking Business Court of Brussels, he takes a holistic and strategic approach to clients’ legal needs, from advice to litigation.
Anthony Bochon has been a director of the GLAWBUS network of lawyers and consultants since 2022. He has been its Vice-President since 2025.
Anthony Bochon has also been pursuing an academic career since 2011 at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he is a research doctoral candidate and assistant in economic law and European law. Since 2018, he has been working part-time on a doctoral thesis on the theory and principles of the law of technological innovation. In this capacity, he is a member of the ULB JurisLab.
He is the author of numerous publications, including the Code de la recherche et du développement technologique (Research and Development Code) (Larcier, 2023), and is frequently invited to speak or chair sessions at conferences. Anthony Bochon recently acted as an expert to the European Economic and Social Committee’s Civil Society Group as part of the preparation of an opinion on the protection of workers in the face of developments in artificial intelligence, adopted on 22 January 2025.
Anthony Bochon is passionate about the arts, and cinema in particular, and is also a volunteer director of a number of cultural associations.
Areas of focus
- Economic law
- Regulatory
- Insolvency & Restructuring
- IP, IT & Data
Why this website exists
Independent, expert and kept up-to-date
The European Innovation Act matters to anyone who develops, procures, finances or protects innovation in Europe. This website exists to make it readable: an accurate, plain-English reading of the text, article by article, with a practitioner’s and academic researcher’s commentary and the official sources always one click away.
The summaries and analyses are general information about a proposal that may change, not legal advice. For advice on your situation, get in touch.
