{"id":1044,"date":"2018-11-07T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/interview-with-hanne-mertens-ip-paralegal-at-calysta\/"},"modified":"2018-12-21T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T08:01:24","slug":"interview-with-hanne-mertens-ip-paralegal-at-calysta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/interview-with-hanne-mertens-ip-paralegal-at-calysta\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Hanne Mertens, IP Paralegal at Calysta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hanne, tell us something about yourself and your background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a child I was already very fond of reading and history. When I turned 18 it was an obvious choice to study Literature &amp; Linguistics at the Catholic University of Leuven.\u00a0<strong>I opted for an original combination focusing on Latin and German<\/strong>. I loved and still love those languages for many reasons, in particular because they represent a real challenge to me. Spending hours on a Latin text, trying to figure out the meaning out of the complex grammar helped me develop an eye for detail.\u00a0<strong>After graduating as a Master in Latin and German Literature &amp; Linguistics, I also obtained my teacher\u2019s degree.<\/strong>\u00a0However, I decided not to pursue a career as a teacher in high schools.\u00a0<strong>Instead I found my way to the world of Intellectual Property, where I have been working now for almost 6 years, currently as IP paralegal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Which Skills are important for a Paralegal to deliver a high quality service towards our clients ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My study helped me to develop an eye for details and an analytic mind. In Intellectual Property these qualities are a must and they can definitely serve our clients !\u00a0<strong>Paralegals need to be rigorous and attentive,<\/strong>\u00a0since all the IP rights pass through our hands.\u00a0<strong>Our clients can rely on Calysta to provide services that go beyond the expected<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>We are \u2018go-getters\u2019 that will go the extra mile to solve all IP puzzles.<\/strong>\u00a0On top of that,\u00a0<strong>Calysta<\/strong>\u00a0people are all multilingual and can serve most of our clients in their local language. Personally,\u00a0<strong>I speak 5 languages : Dutch as mother tongue, French, German, English and Portuguese.<\/strong>\u00a0I am very fond of the personal contact with our clients and like getting to know them better and understand their business.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where will CALYSTA play an important role for\u00a0our clients?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The way we approach our customers is completely different than in traditional IP firms<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>We establish a profound and transparent relationship through close collaboration<\/strong>. This makes all the difference,\u00a0<strong>since we not only work FOR our clients but also WITH our clients<\/strong>. It is precisely this vision that I love at\u00a0<strong>Calysta<\/strong>\u00a0and that makes us a great team !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanne, tell us something about yourself and your background As a child I was already very fond of reading and history. When I turned 18 it was an obvious choice to study Literature &amp; Linguistics at the Catholic University of Leuven.\u00a0I opted for an original combination focusing on Latin and German. I loved and still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[96],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1046\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calysta.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}