The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has announced the appointment of 85 judges to the court, as well as announcing the composition of the UPC’s Presidium following election.
The court will be led by Mr Klaus Grabinski as President of the Court of Appeal and Ms Florence Butin as President of the Court of First Instance. The Presidium is further composed of two Court of Appeal Judges and three Court of First Instance Judges.
Seven judges have been appointed to the Court of Appeal, and twenty-seven appointed to the Court of First Instance in the various divisions: Paris, Munich, Vienna, Brussels, Helsinki, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim, Milan, The Hague, Lisbon, Ljubljana and the Nordic-Baltic regional division comprising Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The post for the Copenhagen local division is yet to be filled.
In addition, 51 technically qualified judges have been appointed by field of technology: biotechnology, chemistry and pharmaceutics, electricity, mechanical engineering, and physics.
The complete list of appointments:
Appointed to the Court of Appeal:
• Mr Klaus Grabinski (DE)
• Ms Françoise Barutel (FR)
• Mr Peter Blok (NL)
• Ms Emanuela Germano (IT)
• Ms Rian Kalden (NL)
• Ms Patricia Rombach (DE)
• Ms Ingeborg Simonsson (SE)
Appointed to the Court of First Instance:
Seat of the central division in Paris:
• Ms Florence Butin (FR)
• Mr Paolo Catallozzi (IT)
• Mr Maximilian Haedicke (DE)
• Ms Tatyana Zhilova (BG)
Section of the central division in Munich:
• Ms Mélanie Bessaud (FR)
• Ms Ulrike Voß (DE)
Local division Vienna:
• Mr Walter Schober (AT)
Local division Brussels:
• Mr Samuel Granata (BE)
Local division Helsinki:
• Mr Petri Rinkinen (FI)
Local division Paris:
• Ms Carine Gillet (FR)
• Ms Camille Lignieres (FR)
Local division Düsseldorf:
• Ms Bérénice Thom (DE)
• Mr Ronny Thomas (DE)
Local division Hamburg:
• Ms Sabine Klepsch (DE)
• Mr Stefan Schilling (DE)
Local division Mannheim:
• Mr Holger Kircher (DE)
• Mr Peter Michael Tochtermann (DE)
Local division Munich:
• Mr Tobias Pichlmaier (DE)
• Mr Matthias Zigann (DE)
Local division Milan:
• Mr Pierluigi Perrotti (IT)
• Ms Alima Zana (IT)
Local division The Hague:
• Mr Edger Brinkman (NL)
• Ms Margot Kokke (NL)
Local division Lisbon:
• Ms Rute Lopes (PT)
Local division Ljubljana:
• Ms Mojca Mlakar (SI)
Nordic-Baltic Regional Division (EE, LT, LV, SE):
• Ms Kai Härmand (EE)
• Mr Stefan Johansson (SE)
Technically qualified judges appointed by field of technology:
Biotechnology:
• Mr Arwed Andreas Burrichter (DE)
• Mr Eric Enderlin (FR)
• Mr Rainer Friedrich (DE)
• Mr Paolo Gerli (IT)
• Mr Krister Karlsson (FI)
• Mr András Kupecz (NL)
• Mr Roman Maksymiw (DE)
• Mr Cornelis Schüller (NL)
Chemistry and Pharmaceutics:
• Mr Michael Alt (DE)
• Ms Kirsikka Etuaho (FI)
• Mr Renaud Fulconis (FR)
• Mr Rudi Goedeweeck (BE)
• Mr John Meidahl Petersen (DK)
• Ms Stefanie Parchmann (DE)
• Ms Laure Sarlin (FR)
• Mr Casper Struve (DK)
• Mr Steen Wadskov-Hansen (DK)
• Ms Carola Wagner (DE)
Electricity:
• Mr Pascal Attali (FR)
• Mr Eric Augarde (FR)
• Mr Bertrand Cochet (FR)
• Mr Grégoire Desrousseaux (FR)
• Mr Alain Dumont (BE) (take up of duties as of 1 Nov 2023)
• Mr Dennis Kretschmann (DE)
• Mr Alessandro Sanchini (IT)
• Mr Andrea Scilletta (IT)
• Mr Simon Walker (FI)
Mechanical Engineering:
• Mr Michel Abello (FR)
• Mr Uwe Ausfelder (DE)
• Mr Koen Callewaert (BE)
• Mr Giorgio Checcacci (IT)
• Mr Paolo Ernesto Crippa (IT)
• Mr Claus Elmeros (DK)
• Mr Frédéric Gaillarde (FR)
• Mr Bernard Christiaan Ledeboer (NL)
• Ms Elisabetta Papa (IT)
• Mr Martin Schmidt (FR/DE)
• Mr Uwe Schwengelbeck (DE)
• Mr Max Tilmann (DE)
• Ms Marie-Paule Vandeberg (BE)
• Mr Patrice Vidon (FR)
• Mr Pascal Lucien Pierre Weber (FR)
• Mr Stefan Wilhelm (DE)
Physics:
• Mr Michael Fleuchaus (DE)
• Mr Anders Max Hansson (SE)
• Ms Ulrike Keltsch (DE)
• Mr Gérard Myon (FR)
• Ms Dörte Otten-Dünnweber (DE)
• Mr Andrea Perronace (IT)
• Mr Christoph Dominik Schober (DE)
• Mr Patrik Rydman (SE)