François Veltz is a registered French patent engineer ("Personne qualifiée en propriété industrielle – mention brevets", see Official Register) with the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI). An engineer by training, he holds CEIPI certification, a bachelor’s degree in law, and an MBA from Sorbonne Graduate School of Business.

His early career spanned marketing at Silicon Graphics (SGI) and business development at an INRIA spin-off developing an image search engine.

From 2006 to 2013, he served as in-house IP counsel for global leaders in computer science (IBM) and pharmaceutical diagnostics (Roche).

From 2013 to 2020, as a regulated French industrial property attorney, François drafted patent applications in various technical fields and managed hundreds of prosecution proceedings across FR, EP, and PCT jurisdictions.

In 2020, he co-founded Qatent (qatent.com), a generative AI platform for patent drafting, subsequently acquired by Questel Group in 2024.

Since 2026, following the successful integration of Qatent at Questel, he is operating as an independent consultant, specializing in AI-enhanced patent engineering. He is not currently practicing as a regulated patent attorney (no attorney-client privilege applies). For filings and prosecutions, Algopatent partners with select IP law firms under NDA, with end-to-end document encryption.

Over 20 years, François Veltz has drafted more than 300 patent applications, today supercharged by generative AI.