François Veltz is a registered French patent engineer ("Personne qualifiée en propriété industrielle – mention brevets", see Official Register) before the French Patent Office ("Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle", acronym INPI). He is not currently practicing as a CPI ("Conseil en Propriété industrielle"), but operates under NDA for confidentiality with end-to-end encryption for information security. He also works with select patent law firms.

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, he 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 drafting. 

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