Vinay Palakkode
“Vinay Palakkode is a senior staff machine learning engineer and manages a team of deep learning researchers and engineers at Rivian Automotive’s self-driving organization. Vinay holds a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in perception for robotics and high-performance computing. Vinay held prior engineering and management positions at Apple’s Technology Development Group (TDG) and Special Projects Groups (SPG).”
Heidi Adler
James Horgan
Willem Hoyng
Professor Dr. Willem Albert Hoyng, LLM (Leiden University, King‘s College, PhD (Tilburg University).
Professor Hoyng is a partner at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER
Professor Hoyng’s practice primarily consists of litigating in the field of intellectual property law. Professor Hoyng is member of a select group of lawyers admitted to appear before the Dutch Supreme Court.
Professor Hoyng is also known for advising on and coordinating pan-European patent strategies. He is the adviser of many innovative Dutch and foreign multinationals, including pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies.
He Chairs the Advisory Board of the UPC (Unified Patent Court), participated in drafting the Rules of Proceedings for the UPC and advises the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs on UPC matters.
Professor Hoyng teaches Intellectual Property Law at the University of Tilburg since 1988.
Gerben Hartman
Gerben Hartman is a lawyer in the Research and Documentation directorate of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) since 2021, where he carries out preliminary analyses of references for a preliminary ruling and other case-related research. His work mainly focuses on all areas of Intellectual Property law. Previously (2010-2016), he worked as a lawyer at a top-tier law firm in the Netherlands. He completed his law studies at the university of Nijmegen (2009) and Stanford Law School (2017), followed by a four-year EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at Queen Mary University of London, with secondments in the Legal Service of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and in the cabinet of Judge Niilo Jääskinen at the CJEU.
Christopher Freeth
Wolf Meier-Ewart
Michael Frohlich
Peter Meier-Beck
Peter Meier-Beck is a retired Presiding Judge of the Bundesgerichtshof, the German Federal Supreme Court.
After serving as a judge at the Regional Court and the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf from 1985 to 2000, Peter Meier-Beck was appointed as a Federal Judge. From 2010 to 2019, he chaired the 10th Civil Senate, i.e. the Patent Division, as Presiding Judge, and from 2019 until his retirement from office at the end of September 2021, he headed the Cartel (Antitrust) Senate.
Peter Meier-Beck has taught patent law since 1995. In 2005, he was appointed honorary professor by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf and in 2022 by University College London.
