The authors Nyske Blokhuis & Natasja DuHayon

Nykse Blokhuis

Nyske Blokhuis studied mechanical engineering at the University of Technology in Eindhoven (NL) and has been a patent attorney with EP&C since 2001. Before becoming a patent attorney, she worked as an engineer and as a failure analysis specialist.

Nyske passed the EQE in 2006 and has been a tutor for the EQE since 2007.

Expertise

Nyske works for a wide variety of clients, for example in agricultural and food processing equipment, heating equipment, metallurgy and cleantech.

She specialises in drafting patent applications (in particular for cases where litigation and/or opposition is expected), oppositions and appeals and in IP strategy. Her clients include large companies, small and medium sized enterprises, research institutes as well as start-ups and scale-ups.
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Nyske is EP&C's in-house expert on divisional applications and on the European Patent Convention.
​Natasja Duhayon

Natasja Duhayon holds a PhD in physics from the University of Leuven (BE) and has been working at imec since 1999. Imec is a world-leading research centre in nano-electronics, having different entities over the world.

Natasja passed the EQE in 2015 after attending the EQE training courses in Maastricht. She joined the EQE tutoring team at the University of Maastricht in 2017 and has also been lecturing in the Advanced Master Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management (IPKM) given at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University.

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After completing her PhD on scanning capacitance microscopy in 2004, Natasja became an IP analyst in imec. In 2006, she joined the Patent Group. She is a patent portfolio manager in the field of semiconductor technology and devices, including defining IP strategy, idea harvesting, patent drafting and patent prosecution.