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Archipel helps companies build daily practices in their teams, so creativity and innovation improve commercial results.


Your industrial company or creative SME develops technical solutions and inspiring creations. Yet in conversations and negotiations, too much information is shared. Valuable know-how walks out the door when team members leave. Everyone senses that value is leaking, yet no one has control over it. This is not solved with “waterproof contracts”.

With experience from three multinationals, I help you build a hands-on legal framework for intellectual property (IP) that lives within your team. So your unique expertise generates return.

How we tackle this

Workshop innovation at Lamifil, © Eve Reypens


We now clearly see how intellectual property can support satisfied clients, a healthy workflow, and motivated people.
- Laurens Dewaele, managing director kpot



Workshop copyright at kpot, © Hans at the kpot coworkspace

When teams use intellectual property, 
commercial results improve.

An IP policy only works if it comes from within. In conversations with your team, alignment emerges between colleagues who often work independently. They see their actual work reflected in the ground rules and tools we develop together.

This trajectory clarifies where your company stands and where it wants to go. Employees experience how IP tangibly contributes to business results. Decision-makers gain insight into manageable risks and stronger commercial choices. This provides direction and motivation to use the new tools and ground rules in practice.

 

What clients say 

Put intellectual property to work and boost your business 

How we work together

1

Discovery meeting 

We explore your ambitions, what works well, and what slows you down. We identify clearly where value leaks and where opportunities lie.

2

Workshop

Interactive and multidisciplinary. Participants bring challenges and share reflections. This is where alignment and first actions emerge.

3

Team action 

Practical documents and a legal foundation that everyone understands. Your team can use them immediately.

4

Follow-up

Negotiations, contracts, conflicts, or policy roll-out: I work alongside you when it matters most.

 We protect your creations and go further put intellectual property to work strategically.


Let's get to know each other

Keynote "Mobility and IP"  at Young AIPPI, © François Gevers

Immediate impact with the Archipel approach


After our collaboration, you have :

  • a compact toolbox: 
  • clear do’s & don’ts and tailored basic documents, that everyone feels confident using

  •  the right IP-reflexes in your team: 
  • people know when to move forward and when alignment is needed

  • structured negotiations : 
  • fewer concessions, more clarity in conversations

In short: a practical legal framework that the entire team understands and uses.

Who is in the photo ?


 


An approach with three dimensions

Legal
understanding the rules

Where is your intellectual property ?
How do you make it work for your business ?
How does it set you apart from your competitors ? 

FAQ

Business 
focus on commercial ambitions

 Your business objectives determine how you put intellectual property to work. 

Team action
we do it together

 I start with the people around the table. Together, we shape a framework so that intellectual property drives better decisions, collaborations, and sales. 

Clients discover the commercial impact

of intellectuelal property 

Business facilitator, with legal expertise
I offer strategic IP advice that you can apply immediately. I make 20 years of multinational experience available to innovative and creative companies, to turn their intellectual property into profitable results and strong partnerships.

Djamila Mahlous 

Accredited mediator 

As an accredited mediator, I facilitate win-win outcomes in complex conversations.

I bring viewpoints together, help resolve deadlocks, and check with the parties that agreements are workable. This leads to decisions with real buy-in and teams that move forward together.

Erin Brokovich
That is what my manager at Campbell Soup called me, referring to the movie character’s common sense approach : start with the facts, listen to the people, and offer solutions that work. And I had long curls.

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Frequently asked questions


Archipel is a match for your company if :

·         you want to use your intellectual property commercially

·         you want your team to help build the IP framework

·         you want to negotiate, collaborate, and grow more effectively with IP


Many companies believe: “We have nothing to protect.” Yet, they tell me stories about strong brands, innovative projects on their website, and original creations they are proud of. By looking at such situations together, it becomes clear where their intellectual property actually sits.


You turn value that was previously unused into growth: new revenue, better margins, clear communication, a stronger negotiation framework. Intellectual property is often seen as an administrative requirement. In practice, it makes visible and strengthens what sets you apart in the market.


I start from situations that your teams recognize from their daily work. In an interactive, multidisciplinary workshop, they share their experiences with risks, what works well, and where things get stuck. Together, we make concrete where value is created, where it gets lost, and which practices immediately help. The team gains clarity of how their creativity creates business value. 



Archipel is not a match if :

·          you are looking for standard documents without involving your team

·         you want to protect IP, rather than use it commercially

·         you prefer to define the IP policy first and present it to the team later


From the first meeting to the workshop and practical documents, the process usually takes around 8 weeks. From the first conversation, momentum builds. Together, we develop a way of working that fits your organisation. The final legal and commercial documents are reviewed with the team so they can start using them right away.

The workshop creates clarity and momentum where previously questions remained such as “why aren’t we getting more out of this innovation?” The new insights are translated into checklists and templates. The team can use them immediately in their daily work.

One workshop sets things in motion. Teams and decision-makers see value that previously remained invisible. From there, I support where it matters most: negotiations with customers or suppliers, drafting contracts, resolving conflicts in a business-oriented way, and rolling out an effective IP framework.