Cyrille SEVIN

In addition to the previous tasks I was handling in France, I am responsible for the following tasks:
• Ensuring that the inventions made at ECD (over 5000 employees) are protected.
• Ensuring that the designs of ECD do not infringe any third parties rights.
• Defining the protection policy (field and countries) in accordance with the industrial and financial constraints.
• Ensuring that all inventions are remunerated according to the German Law; determining the value of the inventions, contracting agreements and solving conflicts with employees.
• Responsible for ECD IP expenses, ensuring that the budget available (over 2 M€) is respected.
• Animating an IP Focal Points network to ensure that the new patents of main third parties (especially competitors) are regularly monitored and not infringed.
• Ensuring that the IP rights involved in our business with other companies are safely managed by appropriate contractual means.

• Prepared and prosecuted patent applications, in cooperation with patent attorneys.
Position involved all technical aspects of patent prosecution, including background check and prior art research, drafting claims preparing reference figures for patent applications, and providing technical expertise during invention assessment.
• Monitored rival patent portfolios. Portfolio protection against infringement.

• UAV activities
• Heat engines studies
• Cost model development
• Competition

• Work Package Coordinator of the Rotary Wing part of the CAPECON (Unmanned Air Vehicle studies) European Program.
Management of eight european partners (industries, research centers, universities) concerning :
- Survey of potential applications (contact with potential customers)
- Assessment of the socio-economical impact
- First definition of requirements, generic definition of the infrastructure necessary
- Cost evaluation and configuration evaluation
• Competition Analysis studies, internal (between our aircrafts) as well as external (competitors).
- Areas concerned : performances, technical areas, costs (production and maintenance).
- Market analysis, orientation for future development (pre-design).
• Contribution to the ENHANCE European Program. ENHANCE aimed at defining common ways of working to start a wide Concurrent Engineering implementation in the European Aeronautical sector.
- Process definition concerning scientific calculation, data exchange and product modelling.
- Definition/management of a Business Case dedicated to a pre-design study, with 6 partners.
- Use and evaluation of common tools developed in the frame of ENHANCE.

• In charge of the Eurocopter Deutschland contribution to the RESPECT European Program: Development of new flight manoeuvres for critical cases in different helipad configurations.
Validation in several steps :
- conception of the manœuvre through use of numerical tools;
- flight test simulation performance;
- validation through flight test performance.
• Contribution to the french-german CHANCE governmental program:
complete helicopter (fuselage + rotor) simulation.

• PhD : „Shape Optimization and Automatic Differentiation“.
Development (conception, implementation, validation) of a multi-platforms Optimization Process.
• Contribution to the new Falcon’s airfoil design.
• Contribution to the Multi Disciplinary Optimisation (MDO) Brite-Euram European Program.