Juges techniquement qualifiés

Arwed Burrichter studied chemistry in Bonn (DE) and Los Angeles (US). He received a doctorate degree in chemistry from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (US) in 1997 under Nobel Laureate George A. Olah. His PhD studies included a research semester at the Université de Strasbourg (FR). After completing his training as a patent attorney in Germany, he worked for six months in the IP Litigation Practice Group of Fish & Neave LLP in New York (US).

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

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

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

Education:
    • Engineering School of Telecommunications, Paris, 1982
    • Postgraduate Degree in Solid State Physics, Marseille, 1983
    • International Studies in Industrial Property, Strasbourg, 1993
    • Bachelor in Public Law, Lille, 1996
    • Master in Business and Industrial Property Law, Lille, 2004
    • European Patent Litigation Certificate, Strasbourg, 2006
Professional qualifications:
    • European and French patent attorney

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

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

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

Work experience:
After first experiences in public research laboratories, Bertrand Cochet joined the European Patent Office in 1998, where he worked until 2008. As a European patent examiner who regularly chaired Examining Divisions, he was in charge of the examination of numerous European patent applications and took part in opposition proceedings, in the field of Telecommunications.

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

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

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

Master of Science in engineering (mechanics) from Aalborg University. Patent Examiner at the European Patent Office in the Netherlands from 1990-1995.
Since 1995 Patent Attorney in private practice and since 1997 European Patent Attorney.
Court appointed technical expert in patent and design related cases in Denmark since 2007.
Part time technical judge at the Maritime and Commercial High Court in Denmark since 2010.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

2013: University Diploma “Patent Litigation in Europe”, CEIPI
2012: Supervised internship, Boards of Appeal of the EPO
2012: Swedish Patent Attorney authorization
2011: European Patent Attorney authorization
2008: PhD Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
2003: MSc Engineering Physics, Lund University
1998: Baccalauréat général, Académie de Clermont-Ferrand

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

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

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

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 works as part time Technically Qualified Judge at the Unified Patent Court in the field of Mechanics. Bernard has been active in patents since 1996. He holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from TU Delft, and an LLM in Intellectual property litigation from Nottingham Law school.

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

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

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

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

Born in 1963 in Hildesheim (Germany), Dörte Otten-Dünnweber studied physics at the Universities of Bonn, Münster and Munich (Germany). She graduated from the LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) with a Diploma in Physics, followed by a Doctorate in Physics at the TU Munich (Technische Universität München).
She joined the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt) in 2004, where she worked as a patent examiner and group leader.

Education
    • Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering,
    • Ph.D. in Biomechanics,
    • Diplộme d’Université in Patent Litigation in Europe (University of Strasbourg),
    • Diplộme CEIPI in the Training Program for Technically Qualified Judges of the UPC (2015). Experience and Memberships
    • Practicing since 1999, European Patent Attorney with wide experience in Italian and European patent prosecution and litigation, including opposition and appeal procedures before the EPO.

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 got a Master Degree in Physics (Rome) and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (Paris), with a thesis on parallel computers simulation of molecular systems.
He has worked in private practice for more than 21 years.
He is a former external expert for the European Commission in the field of Anti-Counterfeiting and has been admitted as a Court Expert before the Specialized Intellectual Property Section of the Court of Rome. Andrea Perronace is a full member of the European Patent Practice Committee (epi), serving in the ICT Group and Guidelines subcommittees.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christoph Schober comes from Saarbrücken, Germany. After graduating from grammar school in 1989, he completed his military service in Koblenz, Germany. From 1990 to 1995, he studied mechanical and process engineering at the University of Kaiserslautern and graduated with a degree in engineering. He then trained as a patent attorney in Düsseldorf and Munich and was admitted as a German patent attorney in 2000.

Cornelis is currently a substitute judge at the District Court in the Hague since 2018. Before his retirement he was for 15 years Head of the Patent Department at Nestlé. Earlier assignments were in biopharma and food companies in the Netherlands and Belgium. He is a Dutch, Swiss and European patent attorney with Master degrees in Law, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Molecular Biology.

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.

Mr Scilletta holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and is a European Patent Attorney, an Italian IP Attorney admitted before the Community OHIM for Trademarks and Designs and he holds the European Patent Litigation Certificate from the Politecnico of Milan. He is a member of Council of the Italian Industrial Property Consultants Institute. Mr Scilletta serves as Court Expert in patent, design and copyright lawsuits in Italy.

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

As a Danish national with a M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Copenhagen (2003), I have a strong foundation in the subject. During my studies, I co-authored three peer-reviewed publications in the field of organic chemistry. After completing my studies, I worked as a synthetic organic chemist for a small biotech company, where I co-invented novel sensor chemistry technology that resulted in the grant of three European patents. I then entered the patent profession in 2006, where I qualified as a European Patent Attorney in 2011.

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

Max Tilmann has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. His technical focus is in 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 has been appointed to the Unified Patent Court in June 2023. Her technical focus is in chemical and agricultural industry 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 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.

Born in 1966 in Munich, Germany, Ms Carola Wagner obtained a Diploma Degree in Chemistry from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in 1992. She pursued doctoral studies at the TUM, where she defended her thesis in 1995. From 1995 to 1997 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the TUM and the CPE in Lyon.
Between 1998 and 1999 she worked for an American chemical company.
Ms Wagner joined as patent examiner the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich in 1999.
In 2014 she was appointed as Technically Qualified Judge at the Federal Patent Court of Germany.

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

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

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