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Trainers belong to ERA’s and UM’s pool international of experts composed of high-profile academics, lawyers in private practice with extensive experience in intellectual property litigation, patent attorneys entitled to represent parties before EPO and national courts, judges, and representatives of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders

Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Director, Advanced Master Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management, Maastricht University; Deputy Judge, Court of Appeal, The Hague
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Dick Van Engelen

Extraordinary Professor of Intellectual Property Litigation and Transaction Practice, Advanced Master Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management, Maastricht University, Patent Litigator, Partner, Ventoux
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Florence Hartmann-Vareilles

Head of Section European Business Law, Academy of European Law, Trier
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Philippe Campolini

Philippe Campolini

Partner, Patent and IP litigator, Stibbe, Brussels

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Alexandre Geulette

Legal Secretary, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

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Sam Granata

Judge, Court of Appeal, Antwerp; Benelux Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Part Time Judge, Unified Patent Court Local Division, Brussels

Jan Phillip Rektorschek
Jan Phillip Rektorschek

Partner, Patent and IP litigator, Taylor Wessing, Munich

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Dr. Alexander Wiese

Partner, UPC Representative, Wildanger, Düsseldorf

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EPLC Course 2024-2025 Trainers

The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Arnold

Judge, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, London

Kemal Bengi

Chair, Technical Board of Appeal 3.5.05 (electricity), European Patent Office (EPO), Haar

Peter Blok

Legally Qualified Judge, Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court, Luxembourg

Pieter Callens

Partner, Eubelius, Brussels

Philippe Campolini

Partner, Patent and IP litigator, Stibbe, Brussels

Kirian Claeyé

Partner, Altius, Brussels

Adam Cygan

Professor of EU Law, University of Leicester

Alexandre Geulette

Legal Secretary, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Sam Granata

Judge, Court of Appeal, Antwerp; Benelux Court of Justice, Luxembourg, Part Time Judge, Unified Patent Court Local Division, Brussels

Anne Halbach

Counsel, Bird&Bird, Munich

Christopher Heath

Extraordinary Professor, International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University; Judge, Board of Appeal, European Patent Office, Munich

Willem Hoyng

Partner, Hoyng Rokh, Monegier, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tilburg

The Rt. Hon. Sir Robin Jacob

Former Judge, Court of Appeal of England & Wales, London

András Kupecz

Legally Qualified Judge , Court of First Instance, Central Division, Unified Patent Court, Munich

Tobias Lock

Professor, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law and Fundamental Rights, National University of Ireland Maynott, Dublin

Stefan Luginbühl

Lawyer, Directorate of International Legal Affairs, PCT, European Patent Office (EPO), Munich

Elisabetta Papa

Technically Qualified Judge, Unified Patent Court, Munich

Jan Phillip Rektorschek

Partner, Patent and IP litigator, Taylor Wessing, Munich

Kay Rupprecht

German and European Patent and Trademark Attorney, European Patent Litigator, Meissner Bolte, Düsseldorf and Munich

Ingeborg Simonsson

Judge, Court of Appeal, Unified Patent Court, Luxembourg

Octavia Spineanu-Matei

Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg

Christopher Stothers

Honorary Professor of Practice, University College London, Partner, Patent Litigator, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

Kalpana Tyagi

Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Maastricht University

Marina Wehler

Partner, Patent Litigator, Arnold Ruess, Düsseldorf

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Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders
Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders

Anselm Kamperman Sanders (1968) is Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Head of the Department of International Law, and Director of the Advanced Masters Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM LL.M/MSc), and Academic Director of the Institute for Globalization and International Regulation (IGIR) at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He acts as Academic Co-Director of the Annual Intellectual Property Law School and IP Seminar of the Institute for European Studies of Macau (IEEM), Macau SAR, China and is Adjunct Professor at Jinan University Law School, Guangzhou, China.

Anselm sits as deputy judge in the Court of Appeal, The Hague, which has exclusive jurisdiction in the Netherlands over patent, EUTM and RCD disputes.

In collaboration with the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier, he co-coordinates the accredited European Patent Litigation Certificate course.

He holds a Ph.D. from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, where he worked as a Marie Curie Fellow before joining Maastricht University in 1995. For the UN he was member of the expert group for the 2018 World Economic and Social Survey 2018. He served the European Commission in the expert group on development and implications of patent law in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering, and the Dutch government in the Commission Compulsory Licensing, and as an expert on proportionality in patent law.

Anselm served as a coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action ITN-EJD EIPIN Innovation Society (2017 – 2021) and is a secretary for the EIPIN Foundation.

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Dick Van Engelen
Dick Van Engelen

Dick van Engelen has been admitted as an attorney-at-law in The Netherland in 1984 and has been representing clients in litigation before Dutch, Benelux and EU Courts in a broad range of intellectual property cases.

He started his career at the Dutch law firm Stibbe (1984-2001), where he was a partner. Before co-founding Ventoux in 2004 he was a partner at Clifford Chance in Amsterdam and head of that firm's Dutch IP Group (2002-2004). Since 2016 he is an extraordinary Professor of Intellectual Property Litigation and Transaction Practice with Maastricht University. From 2007 through 2016 he was Professor of Industrial Property Law at Utrecht University. His publications and other materials can be found at his website www.dickvanengelen.nl.

He is also the editor in chief of www.boek9.nl, a Dutch website that publishes Dutch and European IP case law and related materials and IP-Portal, an English language website that publishes IP case law of the EU Court of Justice and the Unified Patent Court.

Dick is a regular speaker at seminars and an author of various publications on intellectual property, international IP litigation and financial transactions and the Unified Patent Court.

He started his career at the Dutch law firm Stibbe (1984-2001), where he was a partner. Before co-founding Ventoux in 2004 he was a partner at Clifford Chance in Amsterdam and head of that firm's Dutch IP Group (2002-2004).

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Florence Hartmann-Vareilles
Florence Hartmann-Vareilles

Florence Hartmann-Vareilles graduated in 1991 with a Maîtrise de droit (Master’s degree in French Law) from Grenoble University (Pierre Mendès-France), where she specialised in English law. The final year of her studies was spent at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. From 1992 to 1993, she pursued postgraduate studies in European Union Law and obtained a Diplôme d'études supérieures spécialisées (DESS) in European Law from Jean Moulin University in Lyon. She completed her legal training at the law school in Grenoble, earning the Certificat de Formation à la Profession d’Avocat (CFPA) and was admitted to the Grenoble Bar in 1995.

Her professional career began at Cabinet Jean Nantermoz in Grenoble, where she practised as a lawyer from 1996 to 1998. She then worked as an inhouse lawyer at Groupe Mornay in Paris from 1999 to 2000. Since March 2002, she has been a Course Director at the Academy of European Law (ERA), and since May 2007, she has been the Head of the European Business Law Section at ERA. During her career at ERA, she first specialised in EU labour and social security law, before moving to European intellectual property law, IT law, media law, and pharmaceutical law.

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