Yves Plasseraud (born June 24, 1939https://www.diploweb.com/_Yves-PLASSERAUD_.htmlhttps://www.babelio.com/auteur/Yves-Plasseraud/111749) is a French-born doctor of law in intellectual property, a researcher and lecturer and a minority rights advocate. He is notably a founder and long-time president of ‘Groupement pour les Droits des minorités' (Grouping for the Rights of Minorities), author or editor of numerous books and publications. He is also an expert on Eastern Europe, specifically the Baltic States.https://www.institutfrancais-lituanie.com/fr/archives/tete-a-tete-avec-yves-plasseraud/#:~:text=Consultant%20juridique%20international%20et%20enseignant,la%20culture%20juive%20en%20particulierhttps://www.lenouvelespritpublic.fr/podcasts/449
Early life and background
Graduate studies Plasseraud's thesis, "La protection des inventions en URSS et dans les républiques populaires d’Europe" (The Protection of Inventions in the USSR and the Popular Republics of Europe), was the first study in French on the protection of inventions in Eastern countries. It was amended and published by Litec in collaboration with Martine Hiance in 1969. A second work titled 'Brevets et sous-développement. La protection des inventions dans les pays du tiers monde (Patents and Underdevelopment: The Protection of Inventions in Third World Countries), also co-authored with Martine Hiance, was published by Litec in 1972.
Personal life Plasseraud is married to Suzanne Pourchier-Plasseraud with whom he co-authored several books and articles.
Intellectual property
Legal career After returning from Strasbourg in 1966, Plasseraud worked for Cabinet Plasseraud, becoming a partner in 1974.
In 1984, Plasseraud left Cabinet Plasseraud and co-founded the firm Ernest Gutmann-Yves Plasseraud (EGYP) with Ernest Gutmann, son of Rodolphe Gutmann. During these years, Yves was active in a number of professional associations.
Throughout his professional years, Plasseraud published several works focusing on topics such as the origins of patent law (in collaboration with François Savignon), as well as trademark law and geographical indications.
During many years, Yves was a member of the group of experts who drafted the modern law on Patents for developing countries. He was later a member of another group who drafted the European Trademarks convention.
In 1995, Plasseraud left EGYP to concentrate on his research and writing and devote time to the field of minorities protection.
In 2018, returning to the field of intellectual property, he co-authored a book titled ‘Typicité : valorisation du patrimoine’https://www.decitre.fr/livres/typicite-9782917681404.html with his daughter which presents several decades of experience in how regions enhance the recognition of terroirs and their products.
Minority rights In 1996 Plasseraud together with a small group of activists, including Gérard Chaliand (writer), Alain Fenet (professor of law), and Olivier Mongin (philosopher and journalist), launched the Groupement pour les Droits des Minorités (GDM), following the pattern of the British Minority Rights Group (MRG).
After having acted as Secretary General for some years, Plasseraud became the president of the GDM.
GDM was responsible for organizing numerous conferences on minority themes. The proceedings were published, either through Parisian publishers or by GDM self-publishing. GDM was represented at various drafting meetings of the Council of Europe and European Community as well as that of the European charter for regional and minority languages. Plasseraud also lectured at the Paris International College of Defense (CID) on minorities and geopolitics.
Extraterritorial cultural autonomy is a field that Yves Plasseraud has researched and written papers on. This concept relates to the protection of the rights of individuals regardless of the territory where they live. It has seen many successful applications in history, from the Ottoman millet court to the Hungarian Law of 1993.
Baltic States Another area of enduring interest for Plasseraud is the future and the status of the Baltic States and their minorities. After writing various articles on this topic, Plasseraud published his first book about it in 1989. He subsequently wrote close to ten books on this subject. He especially researched the Jews of the Baltic region, particularly the Litvaks of former Lithuania, and published several works in collaboration with Henri Minczeles. Plasseraud was also directly involved in the process of investigating the Holocaust in the Baltic States and particularly in Lithuania through conferences and interviews. He was also invited to participate in meetings concerning the integration of the Russian speaking communities in the Estonian and Latvian societies.
Yves Plasseraud was the president of Association France-Estonie in 1991-1995. He was also instrumental, together with Suzanne Champonnois, in founding the Association France-Lettonie in 1996.
In 2015, Plasseraud published Irena Versaité: Tolerance and Involvement, a biography of his long-standing friend Irena Veisaite, a Holocaust survivor and outstanding cultural and human rights activist in Vilnius
For his service to the Baltic countries, Plasseraud was awarded:
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas 5° "Knight's Cross" (Lithuania, 1996) January 13th commemorative medal (Lithuania, 1993.01.11) Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (Estonia) Devoting himself to promoting awareness and advocating for the rights of ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities, he made numerous interventions and wrote or edited about ten books on these topics, including Atlas Européen des minorités (European Atlas of Minorities) published by Autrement (2005).
Since 2000 Plasseraud has been a member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), attending the yearly conventions in Columbia University in New York, delivering lectures and chairing roundtables.
Bibliography (non-exhaustive)
Intellectual property
Personal works and books written in collaboration
La protection des inventions en URSS et dans les républiques populaires d'Europe , with M. Hiance, Litec, 1969. Brevets et sous-développement, la protection des inventions dans les pays du tiers monde, with M. Hiance, Litec, 1972. Choisir, protéger et gérer vos marques, Editions d’Organisation, 1977. Genèse du droit unioniste des brevets, in collaboration with F. Savignon, Litec, 1983. L'État et l'invention, histoire des brevets Yves Plasseraud, F. Savignon, Paris, 1883, La Documentation Française, 1986. Entreprise et propriété industrielle, Cabinet Plasseraud, Europrotection, 1983. Le nouveau droit chinois des brevets d'invention, with C. Grosset-Fournier, EGYP, 1987. Les Marques, with M. Dehaut & C. Plasseraud, Francis Lefebvre 1994. Les AOC with Martine Dehaut, EGYP. Typicité, La valorisation du patrimoine, in collaboration with Marie-Gabrielle Plasseraud, TIR, Rennes, 2018.
Collective works
European Patent Law and Practice, (M. Stiefel & J. Gevers), Practising Law Institute, New York, 1970. Piraterie et contrefaçon de marques dans les pays du Marché commun, Paris, EGYP, 1985. De Dienstmerken, Les marques de service, RDC-TBH, Bruxelles, 1987 Die Neuregelung des gewerblichen Rechtschutzes in China, GRUR Abhandlungen, Munich, 1988. Interfaces between Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Designations of Origin in Europe, ECTA, Crète, May 24–27, 2000. Les instruments juridiques reconnus par l’OMC: IGP, marques collectives, certifications, labels, in Les ressources génétiques végétales et le droit dans les rapports Nord-Sud, Bruylant, 2004.
Articles
“Droit communautaire des ententes”, Bulletin de la Compagnie des Conseils en propriété industrielle (CBI). "La nouvelle loi française sur les brevets", Rassegna della proprietà Industriale Litteraria Artistica (RPILA), N° 14- December–January, 1967. “Le commerce Est-Ouest et la propriété industrielle”, RPILA, Milan, 1968. “La marque de spécialité pharmaceutique”, CBI Informations, N°11 March 1975 “La recherche d’antériorités en matière de marques”, CBI Informations, n° 15, 3° trimester 1976. “Marques et langues régionales”, Revue de propriété Industrielle, Litttéraire et Artistique (RIPIA), ca. 1976. “Droit communautaire des ententes”, Bulletin de la Compagnie des Conseils en propriété industrielle (CBI). “La marque de fabrique, de commerce ou de service dans l’industrie pharmaceutique”, Bulletin de l’Ordre des pharmaciens N° 278, October - November 1984. “Ancré dans le terroir français… le système des appellations d’origine”, Le Monde diplomatique, April 1988. “La lucrative industrie de la contrefaçon”, Le Monde diplomatique, April 1988. “La déclaration française des droits de l’homme et sa filiation. La protection des inventions" (décrets de January et May 1791), Droits d’auteurs et droits de l’homme, INPI, 16 et 17 June 1989. "Intellectual Property Enforcement Practices in the Judiciary, Customs and Police". OMC/OMPI/OSIM, Mangalia (Ro), June 6–8, 2001.
Works on the subject of minorities and identity
Personal works and books written in collaboration
Une et (in)divisible, Nature et Bretagne, 1980. Ethnisme et extrême- droite, Celsius, special issue, February 1987. Histoire de France, mythes et réalités, (with S. Citron & C. Guyonvarc'h), Analyse Laïque,1995. Les minorités, Clés, Montchrétien, 1998. L'identité, Clés, Montchrétien, 2000. Atlas des minorités des États d’Europe, (ed.), Autrement, 2005. L’Europe et ses minorités, PUG, Grenoble, 2012. Les identités des peuples d’Europe, Armeline, 2016. Идентичность народов Европы, L’identité des peuples d’Europe, Moscow, 2019. Identity and Sustainable Development. Promoting Cities and States in the Global Market, Riga 14–15 November 2002.
Collective works
Qu’est-ce qu’une minorité en France aujourd’hui? Les minorités l'âge de l'État-nation, Fayard, 1985. Les revendications des minorités autochtones de France métropolitaine deux siècles après 1789, Les minorités et leurs droits depuis 1789, L'Harmattan,1989. Nouvelle Europe: minorités et réfugiés, GDM, 1993. Les minorités et leur protection, Encyclopedia Universalis, 1997. Nouvelle Europe et minorités, in: Questions contemporaines de minorités: Diversité culturelle, fédéralisme et prévention des conflits, Conférence OSCE, 2006 sur la mise en œuvre des engagements concernant la dimension humaine (Warsaw 2–12 October 2006), CGRI, Bruxelles, 2007. (with an English version). Tallinn Conference on Conceptualizing Integration (October 18–19 - 2007), Integration Foundation, Tallinn, 2008. “Typologie des minorités ethniques, culturelles et religieuses”, in Bretons, Indiens, Kabyles … Des minorités nationales?, Rennes, PUR, 2009. Les minorités ethniques et linguistiques en Europe, Rencontres européennes, Actes de la Fondation Joseph Karolyi, Budapest, 2012. Les langues de France et la ratification de la charte des langues régionales ou minoritaires, Klein, Pierre, Initiative citoyenne alsacienne. Strasbourg, 2013. Yves Person un historien de l’Afrique engagé dans son temps, ed. Becker, Charles, & al, IMAF-Karthala, Paris, 2015. Panarchy, Political theory of non-territorial states, Tucker, Aviezer, de Bellis, Gian Piero de Bellis (eds.) Routledge, 2015. Minorités et mondialisation, ed. Le Coadic, Ronan, BCD, Rennes, 2016. Panarchia, Un paradigma per la società multiculturale, ed. De Bellis G-P, FSC, Ladispoli (RM), 2017. Svoi i tchoujnie. Metamorfosi identitnosti na vostoke i zapade Evropi, (Soi-même et les autres, la métamorphose des identités à l’Est et à l’Ouest de l’Europe), ed. Filippova, Elena & al, Académie des sciences de Russie, Goriatchaia linaia (Hotline) – Telekom, Moscow, 2018. В Амелин, Les nôtres et les autres. Retour épistémologique sur la perception des identités en Europe, Elena Filippova, Yann Bévant, Yves Plasseraud, Sergey Sokolovskiy 2019.