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Judges Results

Arwed Burrichter

Arwed A. Burrichter

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Arwed Burrichter has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in chemistry.

 

Michel Abello

Michel Abello

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Michel Abello has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

Michael Alt

Michael Alt

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Michael Alt has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: pharma, biotech, chemistry, medical devices.

Gabriele Alt

Gabriele Alt

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Gabriele Alt has been appointed to the Court in July 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: (bio)pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemistry and plants.

Graham Ashley

Graham Ashley

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Graham Ashley has been appointed to the Court in August 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

Pascal Attali

Pascal Attali

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Pascal Attali has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in electricity.

 

Eric Augarde

Eric Augarde

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Eric Augarde has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: electricity and telecommunications.

 

Uwe Ausfelder

Uwe Ausfelder

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Uwe Ausfelder has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical and business engineering.
 

Koen Callewaert

Koen Callewaert

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Koen Callewaert has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in engineering.

 

Giorgio Checcacci

Giorgio Checcacci

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Giorgio Checcacci has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

 

Bertrand Cochet

Bertrand Cochet

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Bertrand Cochet has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in electronics.

Paolo Ernesto Crippa

Paolo Ernesto Crippa

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Paolo Ernesto Crippa has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

 

Xavier Dorland-Galliot

Xavier Dorland-Galliot

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Xavier Dorland-Galliot has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: chemistry and pharmaceutics.

Torsten Duhme

Torsten Duhme

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Torsten Duhme has been appointed to the Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in the following areas: electricity and physics.

Alain Dumont

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Alain Dumont has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in November 2023. His technical focus is in electronics.

Claus Elmeros

Claus Elmeros

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Claus Elmeros has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanics.


 

Eric Enderlin

Eric Enderlin

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Eric Enderlin has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology.

 

Guillaume Faget

Guillaume Faget

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Guillaume Faget has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in electricity and physics.

Michael Fleuchaus

Michael Fleuchaus

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Michael Fleuchaus has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in technical physics.

Rainer Friedrich

Rainer Friedrich

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Dr Rainer Friedrich has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in biochemistry.

 

Renaud Fulconis

Renaud Fulconis

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Renaud Fulconis has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. In his career, he has been working on cases spanning a large variety of technical fields, including pharma, biotech, medical devices, chemical engineering and others.

Frédéric Gaillarde

Frédéric Gaillarde

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Frederic Gaillarde has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in engineering.

 

Nicolai Geier

Nicolai Geier

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Physics

Nicolai Geier has been appointed to the Court in August 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: tribology, materials science and magnetism.

Paolo Gerli

Paolo Gerli

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Paolo Gerli has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in pharmaceutical chemistry and technology.

 

Rudi Goedeweeck

Rudi Goedeweeck

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Rudi Goedeweeck has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His main technical focus is in chemistry and photophysics.

 

Andreas Gustafsson

Andreas Gustafsson

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Andreas Gustafsson has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in pharmaceutics, chemistry and food technology.

Anders Hansson

Anders Hansson

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Anders Hansson has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the areas of applied physics and mathematics.

 

Anna Hedberg

Anna Hedberg

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Anna Hedberg has been appointed to the Court in July 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: chemistry, pharmaceuticals and biochemistry.

Merja Heikkinen-Keinänen

Merja Heikkinen-Keinänen

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Merja Heikkinen-Keinänen  has been appointed to the Court in September 2023. Her technical focus lies in mechanical engineering.

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Hergen Kapels

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Hergen Kapels has been appointed to the Court in August 2023. His technical focus is in electricity and physics.

Krister Karlsson

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

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Christian Keller

Christian Keller

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Christian Keller has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2024. In his career, he has been working in many technical fields, including patent examination, physics and communication systems. His technical focus is in the following areas: electricity and physics.

Ulrike Keltsch

Ulrike Keltsch

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Ulrike Keltsch has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: electrical engineering, communication networks, data processing, medical technologies, semiconductor physics, optics and  telecommunications.

Steven Richard Kitchen

Steven Richard Kitchen

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Steven Richard Kitchen has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in the fields of electricity and physics.

Dennis Kretschmann

Dennis Kretschmann

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Dennis Kretschmann has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: physics, optics, electrical engineering, IT, and software.

 

Bernard Ledeboer

Bernard Ledeboer

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Bernard Ledeboer has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the field of mechanical engineering.

 

Klaus Loibner

Klaus Loibner

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Klaus Loibner has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in telecommunications, electronics, electrical engineering as well as instrumentation and control engineering, computer science and computer implemented inventions.

Udo Matter

Udo Matter

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Udo Matter has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in September 2023. His technical focus is in electronics, especially telecommunications, and in physics.

Jeroen Meewisse

Jeroen Meewisse

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics
  • Mechanical Engineering

Jeroen Meewisse has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: mechanical engineering, chemistry and pharmaceutics.

Johannes Mesa Pascasio

Johannes Mesa Pascasio

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Johannes Mesa Pascasio has been appointed to the Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in the following areas: electricity and physics.

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Gérard Myon

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Gérard Myon has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in physics and engineering.

Christoph Norrenbrock

Christoph Norrenbrock

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Christoph Norrenbrock has been appointed to the Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in electricity and physics.

Dörte Otten-Dünnweber

Dörte Otten-Dünnweber

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Dörte Otten-Dünnweber has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in physics.

 

Elisabetta Papa

Elisabetta Papa

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Elisabetta Papa has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

 

 

Stefanie Parchmann

Stefanie Parchmann

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Stefanie Parchmann has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: analytical chemistry and biochemistry.

Andrea Perronace

Andrea Perronace

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Andrea Perronace has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in physical chemistry.


 

 

John Meidahl Petersen

John Meidahl Petersen

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

John M. Petersen has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is mostly in chemistry.

 

Stefanie Philipps

Stefanie Philipps

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Stefanie Philipps has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in August 2023. Her technical focus is in chemistry and process engineering.

Michael Quittkat

Michael Quittkat

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Michael Quittkat has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in the field of electricity.

Kerstin Roselinger

Kerstin Roselinger

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Kerstin Roselinger has been appointed to the Court in July 2023. Her technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

Patrik Rydman

Patrik Rydman

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Patrik Rydman has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in applied physics and electrical engineering.


 

Wiem Samoud

Wiem Samoud

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Wiem Samoud has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: electricity and physics.

Alessandro Sanchini

Alessandro Sanchini

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Alessandro Sanchini has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus lies in electronic engineering, telecommunications and computer science.

Alessandra Sani

Alessandra Sani

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Alessandra Sani has been appointed to the Court in October 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: physics and electricity.

Laure Sarlin

Laure Sarlin

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Laure Sarlin has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in the following areas: chemistry and biochemistry.

 

Beate Schenk

Beate Schenk

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Beate Schenk has been appointed to the Court in August 2023. Her technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

Martin Schmidt

Martin Schmidt

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Martin Schmidt has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in chemistry and physics.

Christoph Schober

Christoph Dominik Schober

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Physics

Christoph Schober has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical and process engineering.

Cornelis Schüller

Cornelis Schüller

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Cornelis Schüller has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: biochemistry, chemical engineering and molecular biology.

Uwe Schwengelbeck

Uwe Schwengelbeck

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Uwe Schwengelbeck has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the fields of mechanics, electronics and physics.

Andrea SCILLETTA

Andrea SCILLETTA

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Andrea Scilletta has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in electronic engineering.

Anthony Soledade

Anthony Soledade

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity
  • Physics

Anthony Soledade has been appointed as Technically Qualified Judge at the Unified Patent Court in 2024. His technical expertise is in physics and electricity.

Casper Struve

Casper Struve

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Casper Struve has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in organic chemistry and pharma.

 

Jochen Thomas

Jochen Thomas

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Jochen Thomas' technical focus is on electricity, especially semiconductor devices and the related assembly and interconnect technology.

Max Tilmann

Max Wilhelm Tilmann

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Max Tilmann has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering.

 

Marc van der Burg

Marc van der Burg

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Marc van der Burg has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in the field of mechanical engineering.

Marie-Paule Vandeberg

Marie-Paule Vandeberg

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Marie-Paule Vandeberg has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in chemical and agricultural industry engineering.

Patrice Vidon

Patrice Vidon

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Patrice Vidon has been appointed to the Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: Mechanics; metallurgy; industrial processes; sound and image processing; telecommunications, incl. SEP

Steen Wadskov-Hansen

Steen Wadskov-Hansen

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Steen Wadskov-Hansen has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: organic chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, renewable energy and food technology.

Carola Wagner

Carola Wagner

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

Carola Wagner has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in chemistry.

Simon Walker

Simon WALKER

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

Simon Walker has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: physics and electricity.

Pascal Weber

Pascal Weber

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Pascal Weber has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in mechanical engineering, in particular medical devices.

 

 

Oliver Werner

Oliver Werner

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

Oliver Werner has been appointed to the Court in June 2024. His technical focus is in the area of biotechnology.

Stefan Wilhelm

Stefan Wilhelm

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Stefan Wilhelm has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is mechanical engineering, chemistry, physics and material science and processing.

 

Erwin Wismeth

Erwin Wismeth

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics
  • Physics

Erwin Wismeth has been appointed to the Court in July 2023. His technical focus is in the following areas: chemistry and physics.