Unified Patent Court names judges
Upcoming court announces 34 legally qualified and 51 technical judges | Klaus Grabinski to lead the new court as President of the Court of Appeal.
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has confirmed the appointment of 85 judges who will begin duties upon the entry into force of the UPC Agreement.
The 34 legally qualified judges and 51 technically qualified judges will be led by Germany’s Klaus Grabinski (pictured), as President of the Court of Appeal, and Florence Butin from France, as President of the Court of First Instance.
The Presidium is completed by two judges from the Court of Appeal: Rian Kalden (The Netherlands) and Ingeborg Simonsson (Sweden) and three judges from the Court of First Instance: Camille Lignieres (France), Ronny Thomas (Germany) and Peter Tochtermann (Germany).
In addition, Kalden has been elected as the Presiding Judge of the second panel of the Court of Appeal.
A UPC roadmap outlines how the entry into force of the UPC Agreement is planned for April 1, 2023, with the court opening its doors and starting to receive cases from that date.
UPC legally qualified judges
Court of Appeal:
Klaus Grabinski
Françoise Barutel
Peter Blok
Emanuela Germano
Rian Kalden
Patricia Rombach
Ingeborg Simonsson
Court of First Instance
Central division, Paris
Florence Butin
Paolo Catallozzi
Maximilian Haedicke
Tatyana Zhilova
Post to be filled before start of operations
Central division, Munich
Mélanie Bessaud
Ulrike Voß
Post to be filled before start of operations
Local division, Vienna
Walter Schober
Local division, Brussels
Samuel Granata
Local division, Copenhagen
Post to be filled before start of operations
Local division, Helsinki
Petri Rinkinen
Local division, Paris
Carine Gillet
Camille Lignieres
Local division, Düsseldorf
Bérénice Thom
Ronny Thomas
Local division, Hamburg
Sabine Klepsch
Stefan Schilling
Local division, Mannheim
Holger Kircher
Peter Michael Tochtermann
Local division, Munich
Tobias Pichlmaier
Matthias Zigann
Local division, Milan
Pierluigi Perrotti
Alima Zana
Local division, The Hague
Edger Brinkman
Margot Kokke
Local division, Lisbon
Rute Lopes
Local division, Ljubljana
Mojca Mlakar
Nordic-Baltic Regional Division
Kai Härmand
Stefan Johansson
UPC technically qualified judges
Biotechnology
Arwed Andreas Burrichter
Eric Enderlin
Rainer Friedrich
Paolo Gerli
Krister Karlsson
András Kupecz
Roman Maksymiw
Cornelis Schüller
Chemistry and pharmaceutics
Michael Alt
Kirsikka Etuaho
Renaud Fulconis
Rudi Goedeweeck
John Meidahl Petersen
Stefanie Parchmann
Laure Sarlin
Casper Struve
Steen Wadskov-Hansen
Carola Wagner
Electricity
Pascal Attali
Eric Augarde
Bertrand Cochet
Grégoire Desrousseaux
Alain Dumont (as of November 1, 2023)
Dennis Kretschmann
Alessandro Sanchini
Andrea Scilletta
Simon Walker
Mechanical engineering
Michel Abello
Uwe Ausfelder
Koen Callewaert
Giorgio Checcacci
Paolo Ernesto Crippa
Claus Elmeros
Frédéric Gaillarde
Bernard Christiaan Ledeboer
Elisabetta Papa
Martin Schmidt
Uwe Schwengelbeck
Max Tilmann
Marie-Paule Vandeberg
Patrice Vidon
Pascal Lucien Pierre Weber
Stefan Wilhelm
Physics
Michael Fleuchaus
Anders Max Hansson
Ulrike Keltsch
Gérard Myon
Dörte Otten-Dünnweber
Andrea Perronace
Christoph Dominik Schober
Patrik Rydman
New website
The court will launch a new website on November 7 promising a “modern and intuitive design…developed with the end-user in mind”.
Access to the site will remain via the current URL ( www.unified-patent-court.org) but the site itself will contain pages on court locations, registry and sub-registries contact information, legal documents, committees representatives, official communication of the court, current and upcoming vacancies, and information on the court’s judges.
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