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.
Eelco Bergsma is Director Assertion, IPR & Licensing at Ericsson and he will coordinate European litigation for the company. Before he was partner and Lawyer at Taylor Wessing.
prof. mr. A.H.N. Stollenwerck
Fons Stollenwerck is counsel bij SmeetsGijbels Advocaten, emeritus hoogleraar VU Amsterdam, oud-raadsheer Gerechtshof Den Haag en oud-notaris.
Ian Sumner is Rechter bij de Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant en Voorzitter van de Landelijke Expertgroep IPR bij de rechtspraak. Tevens is hij Hoogleraar Familierecht en IPR aan de Tilburg University.
mr. drs. P.W.G. de Beer
Peter de Beer is senior rechter Rechtbank Zeeland-West-Brabant
Kirsten van der Zwan is Global Head of Privacy AI by Signify
T. Hessel
Tobias Hessel is partner at Clifford Chance in Düsseldorf and he advises and represents clients in national and multi-jurisdictional IP litigation cases.
He is very experienced in patent litigation cases predominantly in the fields of information technology, medical devices, telecommunications, and semiconductors. Tobias has significant experience in representing his clients in disputes relating to standard-essential patents (SEPs) including the antitrust related aspects (FRAND).
