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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.”
Mohammad Ahmadi Bidakhvidi

Mohammad Ahmadi Bidakhvidi

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Patents: where technology, strategy, and law meet.”
Johannes van Melle

Johannes van Melle

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney
“It is my working experience through the cycle of many startups that has taught me the value of IP.”
Teun van den Heuvel

Teun van den Heuvel

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Successful technical innovations cannot do without a carefully considered IP strategy.”
Martin Klok

Martin Klok

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

Claudia Meindel

  • Attorney-at-Law
“To be equally familiar with the law and practical business needs provides maximum benefit for clients.”
Lydia Schenk

Lydia Schenk

  • Dutch Patent Attorney
“A good patent description can act as a catalyst for innovation.”
Henri van Kalkeren

Henri van Kalkeren

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“The prospering of technical innovation goes beyond the conception of a great idea.”
Raquel Alvarez

Raquel Alvarez

  • European and Benelux Trademark and Design Attorney
“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it (Benjamin Franklin)”
Karel de Jong

Karel de Jong

  • European and Dutch Patent Attorney, European Patent Litigator
“Nowadays, patenting has become the essential ingredient, since creative entrepreneurship and innovative technology do not suffice anymore to generate long-lasting profitable business in the highly competitive information society of today.”

News

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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Exciting finals Erasmus University Challenge

Last Thursday 22 January, the finals of the Erasmus University Challenge took place, with V.O.'s Raimondo Cau as one of the jury members. From biodegradable glitter to nitrate-cleaning technology: students from Erasmus University Rotterdam proved during the Erasmus University Challenge that bold ideas can bring about real change.

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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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