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.
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.
Jules Fabre heads Taylor Wessing's patent department in Paris. He specialises in intellectual property, with a particular focus on patent and regulatory matters in the Life Sciences and pharmaceutical sector.
He has extensive experience handling complex French and cross border patent and SPC litigations, both in private practice and inhouse.
Boukje van der Maazen is a counsel at Winston Taylor in Amsterdam and specializes in complex litigation in the field of patent law and competition law.
Ivo Pieters is advocaat bij Groenendijk en Kloppenburg advocaten in Leiden, raadsheer-plaatsvervanger in het Hof Arnhem-Leeuwarden, (kinder)rechter-plaatsvervanger in de Rechtbank Rotterdam, bestuurslid van de Stichting Bijzondere Curator Nederland, voorzitter van de Stichting 'De Gezinsadvocaat' en publiceert hij regelmatig in diverse vaktijdschriften.
Ralph Jan van der Ham is advocaat en partner bij Holla Advocaten. Hij heeft de Grotius specialisatiecursus arbeidsrecht summa cum laude afgelegd. Hij is redactiemedewerker RAR en doceert onder meer over flexibele arbeidsrelaties.
