About

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Your ideas. Your innovations. Your brand. Our IP practice understands that these assets make your business unique, and we know how to protect them.

There’s a reason why more than half of the world’s top 100 brands (Financial Times, 2017) have chosen us to represent them. With 400 IP professionals worldwide, we combine a global outlook with local knowledge across the life cycle of IP assets ― from development to commercialization, and licensing through to maturity. But it's not how many lawyers we have; it’s the way we work together that our clients really value.

Many of our lawyers hold advanced degrees in science and engineering, helping us to fully appreciate the products and processes in traditional industries, as well as emerging ones.

We live and breathe IP. And we are ready to resolve your intellectual property issues wherever and however they arise.

Chambers Review

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Intellectual Property: General - Mostly Trade Mark/Copyright - Netherlands

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What the Team is Known For

Hogan Lovells advises on a broad range of contentious patent cases, often acting for innovator pharmaceutical companies and telecoms clients. The law firm is well known for assisting with patent infringement cases, enforcement actions, revocation disputes and validity proceedings. The team is also well versed in contentious and non-contentious trade mark and copyright matters, such as infringement proceedings, IP portfolio management and trade mark registration cases. The department holds additional expertise in anti-counterfeiting mandates.

Work Highlights

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  • Hogan Lovells represented Bristol Myers Squibb in patent infringement proceedings against Sandoz, Stada and Teva in relation to its medicine Eliquis.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Gertjan Kuipers
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Gertjan Kuipers is active in patent infringement cases. He has a number of high-profile clients from the technology and telecommunications sectors, as well as life sciences.

Gertjan Kuipers is good at simplifying things. He always keeps us in the loop and is quite proactive in finding solutions.

Gertjan Kuipers is a very experienced patent litigator. He is a great addition to the team, has a strong reputation and is easy to work with.

Gertjan Kuipers' advice, experience and understanding of IP and our industry helped us a lot.

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Ruud van der Velden
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Ruud van der Velden acts for clients from the chemical and pharmaceutical industries in patent revocation and infringement proceedings.

Ruud van der Velden is an excellent lawyer who provides very appreciated support and advice.

Ruud van der Velden is highly knowledgeable, responsive to clients, thoughtful and a great lawyer.

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Samantha Brinkhuis
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Samantha Brinkhuis assists clients with a range of soft IP matters including trade mark infringement, portfolio management and validity proceedings.

Samantha Brinkhuis is very straight to the point, very strategic and up to speed in terms of the latest trends in the legal field. She is a very sharp litigator for trade mark cases.

As a client, I can attest to the fact that Samantha Brinkhuis is a remarkable IP lawyer. She is always available when needed and very dedicated.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Intellectual Property: General - Mostly Trade Mark/Copyright

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Samantha Brinkhuis
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Intellectual Property: Patent

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Gertjan Kuipers
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Ruud van der Velden
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Members

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Charmayne Sijm

Dirk-Jan Ridderinkhof

Giannina Leander

Rik Zagers

Ruud van der Velden

Head of Department

Samantha Brinkhuis

Stefan Dusault