Richard Ebbink

Richard is a partner at Brinkhof who specialises in conducting European patent litigation. As a lawyer and UPC representative, he advocates the interests of primarily international companies before the UPC and the national patent courts in Europe, including in The Hague. Richard has gained international respect for his balanced coordination of parallel patent proceedings in Europe, the US and the EPO.

JD Amsterdam (1982); LLM Columbia University (1983); Pennie & Edmonds (1991); NautaDutilh (1984-2004).

Member of the EPLAW Advisory Board (ex EPLAW president).

Richard is a regular speaker at conferences on the infringement and validity of European patents in the national courts, and on how to coordinate parallel actions.