This summer ten trainees from V.O. successfully completed V.O.'s internal patent attorney training. In July, Vicky Andréka, Leen Beller, Raimondo Cau, Tamara Idema, Monika Jędrzejczyk, Martin Pekař, Matthijs Roelofs, Senne Plessers, Sara Tekavec and Lydia Schenk festively received their certificates.
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IAM Patent 1000 has honored our practices in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany with a gold, silver and bronze recommendation, respectively. Furthermore, for the Netherlands, individual recommendations go to Leo Jessen, Hajo Kraak, Bernard Ledeboer, Otto Oudshoorn and Frits Schut. For Belgium Annemie Jaeken, Marco Molling and Annemie Swinnen are recommended, and for Germany Bettina Hermann and Jennifer Ebner von Eschenbach.
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The innovation competitions organized by a number of universities in the Netherlands are running at full speed. This year, the TU Delft Impact Contest (TU Delft), the WUR Challenge (Wageningen University & Research), the UT Challenge (University of Twente) and the TU/e Contest (TU Eindhoven have already taken place.
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As of 1 October, Hans Bottema has joined V.O. as a partner. Hans is a highly experienced European and Dutch patent attorney and European patent litigator. He has an impressive career in IP. He was a partner at NLO for more than 24 years.
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In summary proceedings brought by Grünenthal against Teva regarding Grünenthal's European patent EP 1 457 208 on testosterone depot compositions, the Dutch court ruled in favor of Grünenthal on 3 October.
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