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Martijn Timmermans

Martijn Timmermans

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Together, we can explore where IP fits into your business model best.”
Bernard Ledeboer

Bernard Ledeboer

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney
  • Registered European Patent Litigator
“Simple ideas are often the best inventions, but are the most difficult to protect. I enjoy the challenge of safeguarding those inventions.”
Marco Molling

Marco Molling

  • European, Dutch and Belgian Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“IP rights are means, not an end.”
Noëlle Wolfs

Noëlle Wolfs

  • European and Benelux Trademark and Design Attorney
“What particularly inspires me in this field is to combine my skills with the clients' needs and to see my clients' companies benefit from their intellectual property strategy.”
Leen Beller

Leen Beller

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney
“Optimally capitalize on your innovation. Activate your ideas.”
Patrick Decrock

Patrick Decrock

  • European and Belgian Patent Attorney
“Thinking together with the inventor in terms of the key features of the invention strengthens patent potential.”
Frits Schut

Frits Schut

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“No matter what accomplishments your business makes, IP protection of essential technologies is vital to stay ahead of the competition.”
Rutger Timmer

Rutger Timmer

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Finding the essence of the invention and expanding its context maximizes the intellectual property value.”
Martin Klok

Martin Klok

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
  • Valuation specialist
“IP is the link between advanced knowledge and financial result.”
Bettina Hermann

Bettina Hermann

  • European and German Patent and Trademark Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“IP is an essential asset of a company having many different facets - always worth to work for it.”

News

Camera-based “display visibility” as a technical security measure in remote gaming: T 2030/22 (Board 3.4.03)

In T 2030/22 (Board of Appeal 3.4.03, 27 November 2025) the Board overturned a refusal for lack of inventive step and addressed, in the same context, an examining division’s concerns that a key feature had no technical effect or was insufficiently disclosed. The decision is of practical interest where image-based recognition is used to control access to a physical device operated remotely.

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Patents as tickets to tax benefits

Both in the Netherlands and Belgium, innovation deductions offer significant tax benefits for companies investing in R&D. The Dutch Innovation Box works through a reduced tax rate on profits from innovation, while Belgium uses the innovation deduction to fully exempt a percentage of these profits. It pays for innovative companies to explore these opportunities.

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Urgency and standing in UPC preliminary injunction proceedings: UPC_CFI_374/2025 (Local Division The Hague)

In its order in UPC_CFI_374/2025, Local Division The Hague, 29 August 2025 (Cilag/Ethicon v RiVOLUTiON), the Court dismissed an application for provisional measures primarily on lack of temporal urgency under Rule 211.4 Rules of Procedure (RoP). The order is a detailed illustration of how the UPC assesses “unreasonable delay” in preliminary injunction (PI) practice and how it links that assessment to a claimants’s preparation steps.

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Events

NCCC 2026

Hotel NH Noordwijk Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Langelaan, Noordwijkerhout

The 27th edition of the NCCC (Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Conference) takes place from Monday 2 to Wednesday 4 March in Noordwijkerhout.

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