The organising committee for the Unified Patent Court confirmed the appointment of 85 judges today, October 19, marking a hugely significant step on the path to the court becoming a reality.
Managing IP reported yesterday that the list would be confirmed today, and the UPC committee didn't disappoint.
The court will be led by Germany’s Klaus Grabinski, who will be president of the Court of Appeal, and France’s Florence Butin, president of the Court of First Instance.
Of the 85 judges, 34 are legally qualified and 51 technically qualified.
The full list of appointed judges is below.
Court of Appeal
Klaus Grabinski
Françoise Barutel
Peter Blok
Emanuela Germano
Rian Kalden
Patricia Rombach
Ingeborg Simonsson
Court of First Instance, Paris:
Florence Butin
Paolo Catallozzi
Maximilian Haedicke
Tatyana Zhilova
Post to be filled before start of court’s operations
Court of First Instance, Munich
Mélanie Bessaud
Ulrike Voß
Post to be filled before start of court’s operations
Local division, Vienna:
Walter Schober
Local division, Brussels:
Samuel Granata
Local division, Copenhagen:
Post to be filled before start of court’s operation
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
Technically qualified judges
Biotechnology:
Arwed Andreas Burrichter
Eric Enderlin
Paolo Gerli
Krister Karlsson
András Kupecz
Roman Maksymiw
Cornelis Schüller
Chemistry and pharmaceuticals:
Michael Alt
Kirsikka Etuaho
Renaud Fulconis
John Meidahl Petresen
Stefanie Parchmann
Laure Sarlin
Casper Struve
Steen Wadskov-Hansen
Carola Wagner
Electricity:
Pascal Attali
Eric Augarde
Bertrand Cochet (to take up of duties as of Nov 1 2023)
Grégoire Desrousseaux
Alain Dumont
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 Feuchaus
Anders Max Hansson
Ulrike Keltsch
Gérard Myon
Dörte Otten-Dünnweber
Andrea Perronace
Christoph Dominik Schober
Patrik Rydman
