Jan-Ger Knot is Raadsheer bij het Hof Arnhem-Leeuwarden. Daarnaast is hij universitair docent internationaal privaatrecht aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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.
Ariane Hendriks is docent familierecht aan de Universiteit Tilburg. Daarvoor was zij werkzaam als advocaat in het familierecht.
mr. J.J.E. Bremer
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.
Boukje van der Maazen is Lawyer and UPC representative at Brinkhof
C. van Staveren
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.
Petra Knoppers is partner en advocaat bij SmeetsGijbels. Tevens is ze rechter-plaatsvervanger bij de rechtbank Rotterdam. Zij is gespecialiseerd in het erfrecht en actief betrokken bij de Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Executeurs (NOVEX) en lid van de VEAN.