Mariusz Kondrat

Managing Partner

Kondrat & Partners

Chris Dudzinski PhD

Partner

SDP Sierzant Dudzinski

Paul Wiegel

Senior Patent Counsel

Sandoz

Claudia Milbradt

Partner

Clifford Chance

Aoife Murphy

Partner

DLA Piper

Camille Pecnard

Partner

Lavoix

Pierre-Emmanuel Meynard

Partner

Lavoix

Dan McGrath

Partner

Marks & Clerk

Dan is an experienced patent litigator who advises clients on a wide range of intellectual property issues. He has considerable experience in biopharmaceutical patent and supplementary protection certificate litigation and has represented clients in some of the most complex technical disputes tried in the English courts. Dan also has significant expertise in litigation before the Unified Patent Court and is currently instructed on several high-profile patent disputes. Dan sits on the BioIndustry Association's IP Advisory Committee and its SPC sub-committee.

 

In the UK, Dan has advised clients in actions in the High Court and Court of Appeal. Dan regularly manages multi-jurisdictional disputes, co-ordinating and working with litigation teams globally. He has been involved in hearings at the Unified Patent Court, European Patent Office, District Court in The Hague and in North America.

 

With a keen interest in scientific innovation, Dan is readily able to master highly technical issues and has a strong grasp of the technical and commercial landscape in which his clients operate

Frank Landolt

Chief Counsel IP & Legal

Confo Therapeutics

Frank Landolt is Chief Counsel, Intellectual Property and Legal at Confo Therapeutics, a privately held biopharmaceutical start-up based in Ghent, Belgium specializing in GPCR-targeted therapeutics.

After studying chemistry and law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, Frank worked for almost ten years on pharmaceutical and biotechological patents and licensing in private practice in the Netherlands, where his clients included major pharmaceutical companies as well as some of the top biotech firms and research institutions in the Netherlands. 

Prior to joining Confo in 2018, Frank worked for fifteen years in Ablynx N.V. (now a wholly owned Sanofi company), where he was a member of the management team and headed an integrated IP and legal group of four lawyers and five patent professionals. At Ablynx, Frank was involved in negotiating Ablynx’s strategic partnerships and licensing deals with AbbVie, Boehringer-Ingelheim, MSD, Merck-Serono, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi and Wyeth. 

From 2000 to 2004, Frank was director of IP and legal counsel at Devgen N.V. (now part of Syngenta), another Ghent-based biotechnology company, where he was involved in negotiating Devgen’s strategic collaborations with Sumitomo, Monsanto and DuPont Pioneer.

Frank is a Dutch and European patent attorney, and also holds a degree in business law from the University of Antwerp. He is a member of the Dutch association of patent attorneys (where he is a tutor for the professional qualification course), EPI and LES Benelux (where he is involved in the LES Licensing Course). He is a regular speaker on a range of topics relating to IP and licensing in the (bio)pharmaceutical sector. Frank was named as one of Managing IP’s ‘Corporate IP stars’ for four years in a row (2015-2018).

Gemma Barrett

Partner

A&O Shearman

Gemma is an experienced and trusted advisor for some of the world’s leading life sciences and chemical companies. Her background in biochemistry means she specialises in complex technical disputes in the life sciences sector.  She has more than fifteen years’ experience advising clients in patent litigation matters before the English Courts including securing preliminary injunctions. She is also experienced in advising on global cross-border litigation, and coordinating worldwide litigation, working closely with multi-disciplinary teams in the defence and enforcement of patent portfolios. She has developed innovative and successful strategies, often combining patent and regulatory law, to assist pharmaceutical companies in the enforcement of their rights.

James Holtom

Partner

McCarthy Tetrault