Unified Patent Court: Protocols on Privileges and Immunities and on Provisional Applications

Mr. Wall is a European and UK patent attorney and litigator specializing in the chemical, consumer products, energy, material, mechanical, medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Prior to founding Oxon IP, he was a Partner in major European and U.S. IP law firms, and before then in-house patent counsel for some of the world’s largest U.S. and European multinationals. He regularly represents clients in Opposition and Appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office as lead counsel in a wide variety of technical areas. He has won numerous defensive and offensive oppositions, including multi-party proceedings, and successful coordination with disputes in multiple jurisdictions such as UK, Germany, US, China, Japan, Korea, and India. Mr. Wall sits on the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Litigation Committee, the Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) European Practice Committee and is President of the European Patent Litigators Association (EPLIT).

Mr. Fox practices intellectual property law with a focus on electronics, telecoms, and software patent litigation. In addition to being qualified as a solicitor, he is also qualified as a European and Chartered British patent attorney, with full rights of audience to appear in IP proceedings at all levels in the English High Court. He is also qualified and admitted as an attorney in New York. Mr. Fox has experience handling multi-national patent litigation. At his previous firm, he was part of the litigation team acting on behalf of Samsung in the Apple v. Samsung mobile phone patent and design litigation in 2012. He also assisted AMSL in its multi-national patent litigation defending against allegations of patent infringement by Nikon in the field of photo-lithography. Mr. Fox has lectured on litigation and IP matters for the European Patent Academy and has been a guest lecturer at the University of London on patent matters. He has also served as a board member of IPReg, the regulatory body for patent and trade mark attorneys in the UK.

Mr. Pors is head of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice in the Netherlands, based in The Hague. He is also a member of the firm’s Tech & Comms, Life Sciences and Energy & Utilities groups. Mr. Pors’ practice focuses on patents and trade secrets, mainly in electronics and life sciences, but he also handles trademark, copyright and design cases. Mr. Pors has been involved in the legislative work around the Unified Patent Court and the Trade Secrets Directive and he has published extensively on intellectual property. Mr. Pors is a board member of the Dutch IP litigators' association VIEPA and active in various other associations.