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Mariëlle van der Loo

Mariëlle van der Loo

  • European and Benelux Trademark and Design Attorney
“Optimally capitalize on your innovation. Activate your ideas.”
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
“Innovation only creates sustainable value when it is properly protected and defended.”
Philipp Reichl

Philipp Reichl

  • European and German Patent and Trademark Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“My task is to optimize the process of building a company’s IP portfolio so that it can get the foothold it needs in the industry to secure its future.”
Annemiek Tepper

Annemiek Tepper

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“The best results are obtained when there is an exchange of creative thinking between the patent attorney and the client. I truly enjoy achieving and maintaining such synergy.”
Saskia van Doorn

Saskia van Doorn

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“IP is the driving force behind R&D.”
Jasper Groot Koerkamp

Jasper Groot Koerkamp

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“IP protection puts you in control of your innovation and provides freedom to share it at your own terms.”
Frits Michiels

Frits Michiels

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney
  • Valuation specialist
“To explore, together with a client, how the best IP protection can be obtained is for me the logical next step after an invention has been made.”
Blijke Kroezen

Blijke Kroezen

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form. (Watts Humprey)”
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.”

News

Intellectual property: the difference between an exit and a missed opportunity

What makes the difference between a successful exit and a missed opportunity? An important lesson from Frits Schut, patent attorney at IP firm V.O. Patents & Trademarks: “A stack of patents does not make a strong company. Intellectual property is not something you have, but something you do.” Companies would be well advised to make IP a structural part of their day-to-day operations long before an acquisition.

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UPC_CoA_622/2025: One word can have two different meanings within the same claim

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Court of Appeal has confirmed and applied its earlier guidance that claim features must be interpreted in the light of the claim as a whole. In UPC_CoA_622/2025, Hefei Xinhu Canned Motor Pump v Grundfos Holding, the Court also clarified that identical terms within a claim do not necessarily have to carry exactly the same meaning where the description and the function of the respective features support a different interpretation.

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T 1186/24: claim wording determines the scope of sufficiency analysis


Claim interpretation can determine whether the invention is sufficiently disclosed

In T 1186/24, Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.08, 18 June 2026, the European Patent Office (EPO) considered how the wording of a claim affects the assessment of sufficiency of disclosure. The Board held that an expressly claimed alternative could not be read out of the claim merely because the patent did not teach how to perform it. As that alternative was not enabled, the patent was revoked.

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Events

FICPI 23rd Open Forum

Budapest, Corinthia Budapest, Erzsébet körút, Hungary

The FICPI 23rd Open Forum provides excellent opportunities to build strong relationships by connecting groups of people who share common goals, concerns and a commitment to quality, as well as opportunities to gather insights from the international IP attorney community on IP practice-related issues or topics of IP law and hear from top-quality speakers.

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Med-Tech Innovation & Licensing Day

High Tech Campus Eindhoven, High Tech Campus, Eindhoven

Collaborating to Commercialize Healthcare Innovation: From Research to Patient Impact

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