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Gwilym Roberts, Honorary Secretary, CIPA

Gwilym Roberts advises clients on all aspects of the patent process including IP audit and capture, IP filing strategies and patent portfolio management techniques. He acts for a range of clients including individuals, SMEs, Universities, and spin outs through to multi-nationals and handles a broad and diverse range of cases before the UK Patent Office, EPO and WIPO.

Dr Dominic Adair, Partner, Bristows LLP

Dominic is a partner in the patent litigation group at Bristows. He specialises mainly in life sciences cases, reflecting his scientific background in this area at PhD level, and in consumer product / mechanical cases.

In addition to being an expert in UK patent litigation he has extensive experience of cross-border litigation in and beyond Europe in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector and regularly coordinates multi-jurisdictional projects.

He is a member of CIPA, the European Patent Lawyers Association and holds office as the Honorary Secretary and Vice President of the UK national group of AIPPI. He edits Bristows’ annual review of patent cases each year for the CIPA Journal.

Daan de Lange, Brinkhof

Kai Rüting, VOSSIUS & PARTNER

Dr. Kai Rüting is attorney since 2005 and partner of the firm since 2015. He advises clients in patent infringement litigation, technology-related arbitrations, and licensing matters. He specializes in national and cross-border patent litigation. Kai has comprehensive litigation experience, in particular in the areas of standard-related patents, electronics, medical technology, chemistry and life sciences. He also has broad experience advising international clients on strategies relating to enforcement of IP rights in Europe.

Kai passed his two German legal state exams in 2002 and 2004 in Augsburg and Munich. Afterwards, he studied at the Boston University and obtained his LL.M. in Intellectual Property in 2005. Kai’s Ph.D. work explored the validity of restrictions in software contracts under German and U.S. patent and copyright law.

Kai publishes regularly and lectures on current issues of patent and procedural law. He is inter alia co-author of the widely acclaimed “Cepl/Voß, Prozesskommentar zum Gewerblichen Rechtsschutz” (commentary on German procedural law in IP), 2nd edition published in 2018.

Kai is recommended in Chambers Global 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 “Germany – Intellectual Property” as “Foreign Expert for USA”. Managing IP describes him in Patent Editorial 2018 as “brilliant litigator whose solutions are all very well-considered”. According to JUVE, Kai is “technically competent and success-oriented” (Patent Litigation 2018), “highly professional” with “excellent expertise” (Patent Litigation 2019), “well thought-out and structured” (Patent Litigation 2020) as well as “experienced, pragmatic, good” (Patent Litigation 2021). He is also named as being among the world’s leading patent lawyers (Who’s Who Legal: Patents 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022). Who’s Who Legal recommends him also for the categories Life Sciences (2020, 2021, 2022), IP (2021), Patent Litigation (2022) and “Thought Leaders Germany” (2021). IAM Patent Ranking ranks him in the category “infringement” (2020). Furthermore, he is listed in IAM Strategy 300 (2019, 2020, 2021) as being among “The World’s Leading IP Strategists”. Kai has been selected by Best Lawyers in Germany for Intellectual Property Law (2020, 2021, 2022). Legal 500 recommends him in the sectors Electronics, Medical Devices and Life Sciences.

Prior to joining Vossius & Partner, Kai was a member of the patent litigation team at an international law firm in Düsseldorf.

Jean-Hyacinthe de Mitry, Gide Loyrette Nouel

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2005, partner Jean-Hyacinthe specialises in industrial property. His expertise includes both contentious and non-contentious matters in all areas of industrial property, as well as unfair competition and protection of know-how and trade secrets. In contentious matters, he regularly advises and represents French and international clients, mainly in infringement disputes and in disputes relating to agreements having a strong IP and/or technology content. Notably, he has a wide experience in national and multijurisdictional patent disputes