Technically Qualified Court Judges

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Professional Experience in Intellectual Property

November 1989 - September 2004: European Patent Office (EPO) substantive examiner (main technical fields: digital electronic circuits and coding) and auditor in the "Harmonisation and Quality" Directorate

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

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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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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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

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.