The author - Roel van Woudenberg
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Roel van Woudenberg
Roel van Woudenberg studied physics at the University of Groningen and obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1995. Roel worked as research scientists and system architect at Philips Research (optical recording, display systems/ image processing), Philips Semiconductors and Philips Lighting for over 11 years. In 2007, he switched career to become a Dutch and European patent attorney. Roel started working at DeltaPatents in 2011 where he combines patent attorney work (drafting, prosecution, consultancy) with tutoring. In autumn 2024, Roel took a position as in-house Head of IP at BDR Thermea Group B.V. (Apeldoorn, the Netherlands). From 2011-2024, Roel was a tutor with DeltaPatents in courses on the European Patent Convention and the Patent Cooperation Treaty, extending from basic and advanced patent law (substantive and procedural law; EPC and PCT) to methodology courses preparing candidates for Foundation paper F (as well as its predecessor, the Pre-Exam) and the former Paper D of the EQE (the predecessor of the current M2 and M4 papers). Roel tutored those courses in the Netherlands as well as throughout Europe, on-site and online. Roel was the coordinating tutor for DeltaPatents’ Foundation paper F and Paper D training and also the coordinator of the popular DeltaPatents’ EQE Blogs. Roel is a member of the epi Council since 2020, the European Patent Practice Committee (EPPC) of epi since 2023, EPPC’s Technical Group Information and Communication Technologies since 2023 and EPPC’s Working Group on Guidelines since 2020 as well as, since 2024, the SACEPO Working Party on Guidelines. |
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