Europe’s Leading IP Counsel, UPC Judges and Patent Experts Come Together in Basel

Name: LSPN Europe 2026
Start: 2026-09-22T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-23T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Basel Marriott Hotel, Switzerland

Judicial and Patent Office Representatives

Emmanuel Gouge

Court of Appeal

UPC

Stefan Johansson

Presiding Judge of the Nordic-Baltic Regional Division

UPC

Peter Thomson

Independent Consultant

ATExIPS GmbH & President of EPI

Dr. Oliver Werner

Head of Patent Division and Head of the Working Group on Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)

German Patent and Trade Mark Office

Martijn de Lange

Patent and SPC Examiner

Netherlands Patent Office

Dr. Dolores Cassidy

Head of Patent Examination

Intellectual Property Office of Ireland

In-House IP Leaders

Sara Burghart

Head of Patents (Litigation and Offensive Strategy)

BAT

Hans-Peter Brack

Global Head IP Management

Medmix

Filip De Corte

Head of IP Crop Protection

Syngenta

Nick Finnie

Senior Director, IP Division Head

Lonza

Fredrik Fredh

Head of Intellectual Property Rights

LEO Pharma

Peter Gray

Head of IP

SHL Medical

Karen Guo

Senior Director, Patents, International Operations

Novo Nordisk

Stephan Kutik

Senior Director, Intellectual Property

Genevant Sciences GmbH

Karin Pramberger

Head of IP

Polpharma

Cornelis Van Ophem

Global General Counsel

Align Technology

Toni Santamaria

Chief Intellectual Property Officer

Adalvo Ltd

Tamaris Bucher

Principal Patent Attorney

Novartis

Dawn Naudé

Head of IP, Technologies & Asset Expansion

Debiopharm

Sean Alexander

Head of IP

Umicore

Julia Pike

Global Head of IP

Sandoz

Ksenia Takhistov

Chief Legal Officer

LCM Biosensor Technologies

Méabh Brennan

Senior IP Counsel

Novartis

Barbara Lange

Chief Legal Officer

SHL Medical

Simona Bieri

Principal Patent Attorney

Novartis

Rosalind Holmes

Patent Attorney

Boehringer Ingelheim

Dean Thomas

General Counsel, Chief Corporate Officer, Head of GxP and Board Member

Ichnos Sciences

Kristin Cooklin

Vice President IP

Recordati

Private Practice and Solutions Experts

MaryAnne Armstrong

Partner

BSKB

Rob Rodrigues

Partner

RNA Law

Peter Ling

Partner

Lenz & Staehelin

Thierry Calame

Managing Partner

Lenz & Staehelin

Lara Dorigo

Partner

Pestalozzi

Louisa Galbraith

Partner

MLL

Alexander Wittkopp

Patent Attorney and European Patent Litigator

Hamm & Wittkopp

Neil Simpkin

Senior Vice President

TOPPAN Digital IP

Rachel Fetches

Partner, Head of Law

HGF

Barbara Abegg

Counsel

Lenz & Staehelin

Giulia Toti

Head of Life Sciences & GTM

Ankar AI

Agathe Michel-de Cazotte

Partner

Carpmaels & Ransford LLP

Juliana Neves

Partner

Licks

Claire Phipps-Jones

Partner

Bristows LLP

Mark van Gardingen

Partner and Co-founder

Brinkhof

Vanessa Perez-Ramos

Attorney

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP (BSKB)

Sarah Lau

Partner

Kilburn & Strode LLP

Tim Powell

Partner

Morgan Lewis

Robin Ellis

Partner

Reddie & Grose

Dr. Boris Tchitchanov

Partner

Hoffmann Eitle

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