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Cees Mulder, born in July 1954 in Tilburg (NL), studied Physics and Chemistry at Utrecht University,
where he received his Masters degree in 1977. Subsequently, Cees worked as an officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy
at the Physics Laboratory RVO/TNO in The Hague.
After completing his PhD in Physics at Leiden University, Cees joined Philips Electronics in 1982, first as a researcher at the Philips Research Laboratory in Eindhoven, subsequently at the Central Development Laboratories of Philips Lighting. In 1994 Cees joined the Philips Patent department as a patent attorney trainee. Cees qualified as a Dutch patent attorney in 1997 and as a European patent attorney in 1999.
In 2001, Cees and three of his colleagues founded a private patent attorney office named DeltaPatents in Eindhoven (www.deltapatents.com). Here Cees was not only able to continue his activities in the field of patents, but also to establish DeltaPatents as a leading institute for training patent professionals, in particular, training patent attorneys for the European Qualifying Examination. In July 2009, Cees resigned from partnership in DeltaPatents and became Senior Adviser.
In the period from 2002 to 2009, Cees Mulder was the main author of a set of two books: “Basic Questions and Answers for Paper D” and “Exam-related Questions and Answers for Paper D”, issued by DeltaPatents (yearly updated). These booklets are used by candidates preparing for the legal questions in the European Qualifying Examination. In surveys carried out by the European Patent Office among all candidates after the examinations, the students identify these books as being most helpful in their preparation for the Exam.
Since 1999, Cees is a tutor at the Centre d’Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) at the Strasbourg University (www.ceipi.edu) and, since 2005, he is co-speaker at the “Guide to the Formal Requirements of the European Patent System for Administrative Staff in the Patent Profession” at Management Forum in London (www.management-forum.co.uk).
Cees is a senior lecturer in many courses on the European Patent Convention (EPC), the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PC) and the Paris Convention (PC) specializing in procedural patent law. Occasionally, Cees cooperates in projects with the European Patent Office (www.epo.org) in Munich and the World Intellectual Property Organization (www.wipo.int/pct) in Geneva.
Since 2003, Cees is the author of the book “The Cross-Referenced Patent Cooperation Treaty” (published yearly).
Since September 2009, Cees Mulder is a Lecturer in European Patent Law at the Faculty of Law of the Maastricht University in the group of Prof. Anselm Kamperman Sanders. As vice-director of the post-doc curriculum “Masters Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (LLM/MSc)” at Maastricht University (www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/law), Cees is involved in the management and teaching of the masters in general, and the MSc-track in particular.
Cees plans to write a second PhD thesis, this time not on Physics but on Law. Working title of the thesis is: “Towards True Implementation of Patent Law Treaty in International, Regional and National Patent Laws”.