On 30 september 2022, Mr. Luc Desaunettes defended his thesis "Trade Secrets Legal Protection, From a Comparative Analysis of US and EU Law to a new model of understanding" written under the supervision of Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University Luiss Guido Carli, Italy and Reto M. Hilty, Professor at the University Ludwig Maximilian Munich (LMU) and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany.
Members of the jury (from left to right): Reto M. Hilty, Professor at the University Ludwig Maximilian Munich (LMU) and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, Tanya Aplin, Professor at King’s College London, United Kingdom, Josef Drexl, Professor and Director at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany, Luc Desaunettes, Christophe Geiger, Professor at the University Luiss Guido Carli, Italy and Annette Kur, Professor and Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Germany (absent from the picture).