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Arwed A. Burrichter

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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.
 

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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.

 

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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

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

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • 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.

Elisabetta Papa

Elisabetta Papa

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Mechanical Engineering

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.

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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 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.

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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

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

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.

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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.

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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.


 

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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Christoph D. Schober

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • 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.

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Cornelis Schüller

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Biotechnology

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Electricity

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

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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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

Technically qualified


Technical Qualifications:
  • Chemistry and Pharmaceutics

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

 

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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.