The authors - Nyske Blokhuis and Cees Mulder
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Nyske Blokhuis
Nyske Blokhuis studied mechanical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology. From 2001-2024, Nyske was a patent attorney with EP&C, where she worked for a wide variety of clients. Within EP&C, Nyske focussed on drafting patent applications (in particular for cases where litigation and/or opposition is expected), oppositions and appeals and in IP strategy and organisational aspects of IP, in particular for growing businesses. Since September 2024, Nyske has been a patent attorney/tutor with DeltaPatents focusing on developing and giving training for the substantive papers of the EQE (A, B and C) and the New EQE (F-Part 2, M1 and M3). Nyske passed the EQE in 2006 and has since then been a tutor for the EQE. From 2014-2023, she was a tutor in EQE training courses at Maastricht University. |
Cees Mulder
Cees Mulder studied physics and chemistry at the University of Utrecht. After completing his PhD in physics at the University of Leiden (1982), Cees joined Philips Electronics, initially at the Philips Research Laboratory and then at the Philips Patent department. From 1997-2020, he was a Dutch patent attorney and from 1999-2025 he was a European patent attorney. Cees was a founding partner of DeltaPatents, where he worked from 2001-2009. Cees is a senior lecturer in many courses on the European Patent Convention, the Patent Cooperation Treaty, the Paris Convention and the Patent Law Treaty. Since 1999, Cees has been a tutor at the Centre d’Études Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle (CEIPI) for the University of Strasbourg. In the period 2012-2023, he was a speaker in seminars organized jointly by the European Patent Institute (epi) and the European Patent Office (EPO). From 2009-2021, Cees was a lecturer of industrial property law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. In 2017, Cees was appointed professor of European Patent Law in a Global Context. From 2014-2021, Cees was a tutor in methodology courses for patent attorney trainees preparing for the EQE at Maastricht University. |
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