Heidi Adler

Director Intellectual Property Rights

Orion Corporation

James Horgan

Chief IP Counsel

MSD

Willem Hoyng

Chairman

UPC Advisory Committee

Professor Dr. Willem Albert Hoyng, LLM (Leiden University, King‘s College, PhD (Tilburg University).

 

Professor Hoyng is a partner at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER

 

Professor Hoyng’s practice primarily consists of litigating in the field of intellectual property law. Professor Hoyng is member of a select group of lawyers admitted to appear before the Dutch Supreme Court.

 

Professor Hoyng is also known for advising on and coordinating pan-European patent strategies. He is the adviser of many innovative Dutch and foreign multinationals, including pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies.

 

He Chairs the Advisory Board of the UPC (Unified Patent Court), participated in drafting the Rules of Proceedings for the UPC and advises the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs on UPC matters.

 

Professor Hoyng teaches Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tilburg since 1988.

Gerben Hartman

Lawyer

CJEU

Gerben Hartman is a lawyer in the Research and Documentation directorate of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) since 2021, where he carries out preliminary analyses of references for a preliminary ruling and other case-related research. His work mainly focuses on all areas of Intellectual Property law. Previously (2010-2016), he worked as a lawyer at a top-tier law firm in the Netherlands. He completed his law studies at the university of Nijmegen (2009) and Stanford Law School (2017), followed by a four-year EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, with secondments in the Legal Service of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and in the cabinet of Judge Niilo Jääskinen at the CJEU.

Christopher Freeth

Principal Associate

Gowling WLG

Wolf Meier-Ewart

Counsellor- Secretary of the Council for TRIPS, WTO Intellectual Property

Government Procurement and Competition Division

Michael Frohlich

Director European and International Legal Affairs

EPO

Peter Meier-Beck

Judge (ret.) and UPC German Alternate Advisory Committee Member

Peter Meier-Beck is a retired Presiding Judge of the Bundesgerichtshof, the German Federal Supreme Court.

After serving as a judge at the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf from 1985 to 2000, Peter Meier-Beck was appointed as a Federal Judge. From 2010 to 2019, he chaired the 10th Civil Senate, i.e. the Patent Division, as Presiding Judge, and from 2019 until his retirement from office at the end of September 2021, he headed the Cartel (Antitrust) Senate.

Peter Meier-Beck has taught patent law since 1995. In 2005, he was appointed honorary professor by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and in 2022 by University College London.

Fiona Bor

Head of IP

Mereo BioPharma

Tim Santos

Developer Relations Director

Graphcore

Tim is leading the Developer Relations in Graphcore to help the AI & ML community achieve maximum success with IPUs and make the next breakthroughs in machine intelligence. Tim has worn many developer hats in his career, from being a research engineer, data scientist and leading MLOps teams. Along the way, he’s gained experience across all stages of the development lifecycle taking AI applications from experimentation to deployment. If you’re looking to try out IPUs, learn more about our Poplar SDK and tools, showcase your innovations, connect with the community, request educational resources, or provide feedback on our technology, then Tim is your champion.