Anne Marie Verschuur

Practice Areas

Intellectual Property and Litigation

Career

Anne Marie has a broad IP and litigation practice with a particular focus on technology and patents. A member of De Brauw's UPC team, she is a registered UPC representative and regularly represents clients in technology-driven matters, ranging from patent infringement/invalidity actions (including FRAND), trade secret disputes and other tech/IP-related conflicts, to transactional work. She also assists her clients in design, trademark and copyright matters as well as on green claims.

Various legal rankings have recognised Anne Marie as a leading lawyer, including Legal 500 (patents, leading individual); WTR 1000 (gold); WTR Global Leaders; IAM Patent 1000 (silver); MIP's top 250 women in IP; JUVE; Chambers (patents and IP general); Who's Who Legal Patents; Who's Who Legal Trade Marks; MIP's IP Stars (trade marks).

Personal

- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI): Former member of the International Board as Reporter General, Current President of the Dutch Board, and member of honour

- European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW): Member

- International Trademark Association (INTA): Member of the Famous and Well-Known Marks Committee

- Dutch Association of Intellectual Property Litigators (VIEPA): Member

- Co-authored a leading Dutch IP handbook and is a member of the editorial board of a national IP journal.