Miriam Kiefer is founding partner of Kather Augenstein and has been active as a lawyer for over 15 years. She has conducted more than a hundred infringement proceedings, primarily for patents and utility models. A majority of these disputes were cross-border proceedings, so she is thus familiar with the coordination of multinational disputes.
Kristof Roox is lawyer and partner at Crowell&Moring Brussels. Pharmaceutical and life sciences companies often have to deal with complex patent litigation. They require help from someone with a pragmatic, creative approach, and this is Kristof Roox’s particular strength. Clients reach out to him for his tenacity in the courtroom as well as his to-the-point counseling on every aspect of intellectual property law.
Myriam Lückers is raadsheer-plaatsvervanger bij het Hof Den Haag. Tot 1 juni 2024 was ze AG bij de Hoge Raad. Daarvoor was zij senior-raadsheer bij het Hof Den Haag en voorzitter Team strafrecht, voorzitter Team Familierecht, rechter bij de rechtbank Rotterdam (sector straf) en kinderrechter. Zij heeft veel publicaties op haar naam staan op het gebied van het jeugdstrafrecht en familierecht. Tevens is zij voorzitter van de EB redactie.
Daan de Lange, partner at Brinkhof, specialises in international patent disputes. His practice focuses primarily on pharmaceutical and biotech cases, in which Daan acts for both innovative and generic parties. He also specialises in international FRAND proceedings.
Carlos van Staveren is partner in the Intellectual Property practice in Amsterdam and focuses on technology-related matters and patent law in particular. He litigates on a broad range of sectors and have been involved in numerous landmark patent proceedings in the Netherlands, the EPO and before the UPC. He has extensive experience handling and coordinating multijurisdictional and pan-European patent proceedings.
Kartica van der Zon is bijzonder hoogleraar Personen-, familie- en jeugdrecht aan Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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Jaap Bremer is Lawyer and Partner at BarentsKrans Lawyers in The Haque. His focus is on litigation in disputes concerning the infringement and validity of patents and other intellectual property rights, particularly for clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, food, and consumer products industries.
Karin Frikkee is raadsheer bij het Hof Den Haag en behandelt daar arbeidszaken in hoger beroep. Zij is onder meer ook redactielid van ArbeidsRecht en geeft cursussen en lezingen over het arbeidsrecht en de zieke werknemer in het bijzonder.
Sebastien Versaevel is Partner and European patent litigator at Winston Taylor Benelux. He focuses on European patent litigation, with an emphasis on the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and has experience before the Dutch patent courts.
