Stefan Schilling

Honourable Judge

UPC Local Division Hamburg

Petri Rinkenen

Honourable Judge

UPC Helsinki Local Division

Patricia Rombach

Honourable Judge

UPC Court of Appeals

Maximilian Haedicke

Honourable Judge

UPC Central Division Paris

Marc Holtorf

Partner

Pinsent Masons

Filip De Corte

Head of IP

Syngenta

Filip De Corte is Head of Intellectual Property at Syngenta Crop Protection, leading patent attorneys based in Switzerland, the UK, the US, The Netherlands and China. Filip joined Syngenta on October 1, 2013. Until then, he held the position of Chief IP Counsel Europe at Cargill (2008 – 2013). Before joining Cargill in 2008, he worked in the Johnson & Johnson patent department, working in Beerse with Janssen Pharmaceutica (1991-2004), New Brunswick (2004-2007), and Brussels (2007-2008). Filip has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry, he is a qualified European Patent Attorney and passed the US patent bar exam. He has the qualification of European Patent Litigation from the University of Strasbourg. He also has an MBA of the Vlerick School of Management.  Filip taught patent law in Antwerp under the auspices of CEIPI (Université de Strasbourg) as well as at the University of Leuven in the IPR management course and is a lecturer in the CEIPI patent litigation course.

Kendell Cannon

Chief Medical Officer

Herself Health

Filipe Pedro

Director of IP

BIAL

Eun-Joo Min

Director

WIPO Judicial Institute