Serge Raes

Orange, France - Standardisation and Intellectual Property Strategy Director

Serge Raes devoted countless hours, effort, and financial resources to his professional career, focusing on various activities within or complementary to ETSI. In 1991, he began contributing to the TETRA standard and later served, from 1993 to 1994, as a Project Team Leader/Expert in RES6 PT29 (project coordination), PT49V (standard re-drafting and restructuring), and PT62V (conformance testing).

From 1998 to 2005, Serge played a key role in the creation and operation of the 3G Patent Platform, an innovative patent pool for licensing essential patents related to the 3GPP UMTS and LTE standards. Between 2008 and 2022, he served as a DAtabase EXpert (DAX) for the DARE (IPR DAtabase RE-structuring) project. Additionally, from 2010 to 2022, Serge was Vice-Chair of the IPR Special Committee, for which he received a certificate recognising “his outstanding contributions to the work of the ETSI IPR Special Committee, in particular for his dedication as Vice-Chair and for the extensive subject matter expertise he has brought to the ETSI community.”