Curriculum Vitae - Yannick PROST

Legal Counsel Intellectual Property

Key skills:
33T rue Rmont - 78000 Versailles - France
Phone Number: +33 7 81 89 48 49 Contractual analysis/drafting
E-mail: yannick.prost@gmail.com Legal risk assessment
Date of Birth: April 25, 1987 Specialized in IP/IT law

Professional experience
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT Europe Legal Counsel - October 2015 until Today (2+ years)
o Contract negotiation and drafting: License Agreements, Services Agreements, Distribution Agreements, IT-
Agreements, Tournament & Esports Agreements, Event Agreements and other commercial contracts;
o Analysis and response to the Business operational staff consultations in: Commercial law, Consumer law, Distribution
and Competition Law, Intellectual Property, Labour Law, Privacy Law;
o Research, analysis and interpretation of case law, court reports, proposed and existing laws and regulations to
prepare technical reports of their impact on blizzard's operations.
MICROSOFT France - Legal & Corporate Affairs Assistant January to June 2015 Internship (6 months)
o Contract negotiation and drafting: Service agreement (MSA/SOW), Content Licensing, Partnership/Event sponsorship,
Letter of Intent, Contest/sweepstake, Distribution, Release Form;
o Litigation & pre-litigation: processing of various incoming legal complaints request targeting BING (right to be
forgotten / defaming, denigrating, counterfeiting, blatantly illicit content listed on the search engine), B2C data
access requests on Microsoft email accounts (Court Orders, summary judgments), B2C/B2B settlements;
o Review and validation of Xbox, Surface, O365, Windows marketing operations/communications;
o Analysis and response to the Business operational staff consultations in: Commercial law, Consumer law, Distribution
law, Intellectual Property (Copyright & Trademark), IT and privacy law;
o Internal process development and follow-up of: compliance, training sessions, delegation of signature/POA.
UBISOFT International Intellectual Property Assistant - January to July 2014 Internship (6 months)
o Contractual drafting and analysis: Service agreement, Content Licensing (In & Out), Videogame Distribution and
development contract, NDAs, Release Form;
o Analysis and response to the Business/Production team consultations in: Intellectual Property (Copyright &
Trademark), Consumer law, Distribution Law, Business law, IT Law;
o Pre-litigation: DMCA notices, Prior rights research;
o Press review on the news and legal development of the videogame industry.
Nolibris/IGS CP - Prim Innov Advisor - May 2012 to September 2012 Business Incubator (5 months)
o Review and Validation of the contracts concluded by the IT Services & Software Engineering department;
o Drafting of an IT/IP set of clauses and creation of template for eBooks development/publishing contract;
o Corporate and Legal affairs follow-up related to the publishing sector.

Diplomas and training

2013-2014: Master II (Professional) and Magisterium in ICT Law Poitiers, FR
2012-2013: Master II (Research) in Intellectual Property law Bristol, UK
2011-2012: Master I in Business law, option ICT Poitiers, FR

Computer skills and Language abilities

Language skills:
o Mastery of the English Language: IELTS (7.0) and 1 year of Erasmus at Bristols School of Law (UK)
Computer skills:
o C2i level 2 Legal Profession
o Tools office automation: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Outlook, OneNote, Prezi
o Web Edition: basics knowledge in PHP, HTML and XML and daily legal watch on Twitter (@Magislex)

Hobbies
o Movie-lover and fan of Webculture
o RTS and MOBA player (eSport)
o Hiking enthusiast