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The authorS Cees Mulder & Nyske Blokhuis


Cees Mulder

Cees Mulder studied physics and chemistry at Utrecht University. After completing a PhD in Physics at Leiden University, he joined Philips Electronics first as a researcher and later in the patent department. He became a Dutch patent attorney in 1997 and a European patent attorney in 1999.

From 2001-2009, he was one of the founding partners of DeltaPatents. 

From 2009-2021, Cees was a lecturer of industrial property law at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. ​In 2017, he was appointed professor of "European Patent Law in a Global Context".

​​Expertise
Cees is a frequent speaker at seminars organised by the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (epi) and the European Patent Office.

Books
Since 2003, Cees has been the author of the book: The Cross-Referenced Patent Cooperation Treaty (published annually).

Cees is co-author of the book: Proceedings before the European Patent Office - A Practical Guide to Success in Opposition and Appeal (2nd edition, 2020).
Nyske 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, automotive, lithography, 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.
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Nyske is EP&C's in-house expert on divisional applications and on the European Patent Convention. 
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​Books
​Nyske Blokhuis and Cees Mulder are authors of the books:

- Smart in C - A simple and efficient methodology for EQE Paper C ​
- Tactics for D - A methodology for EQE Paper D.

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