Roeland Grijpink
Managing IP Rising Star
Partner
Roeland is a partner at HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER. He practices in all areas of intellectual property law, with a focus on patents. He represents national and international clients before the Unified Patent Court and the Dutch courtsm, in proceedings about telecommunications, life sciences and mechanics. He was involved in many cases on standard essential patents and developed a particular expertise on FRAND cases.
Roeland’s soft IP practice focuses on product design. In previous years, Roeland litigated cases about the design of inter alia wallets, curtain rails and potato fries.
Besides intellectual property, Roeland also assists clients on matters of advertising law, (IP-related) competition law and commercial contracts.
In 2015, Roeland gained both international and in-house experience outside our firm, when he was seconded to an IP boutique firm in London and a Dutch multinational involved in health technology and consumer electronics.
Roeland Grijpink has registered Intellectual Property Law as his principal legal practice area in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister). Based on this registration, he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in this principal legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.
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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Nikon v. ASML. Representing ASML in multiple patent infringement proceedings regarding its immersion lithography machines, confirming the invalidity of Nikon’s patents.
- Philips v. ASUSTeK, Wiko and Archos. Representing Philips on FRAND and other non-technical defenses in standard essential patent litigation against multiple defendants.
- Simplot v. McCain. Representing Simplot in design right infringement proceedings, confirming the validity and infringement of Simplot’s design by McCain’s ‘Rustic Twist’.
- FKP Sojuzplodoimport v. Yukos. Obtained an order to lift the seizure of FKP’s Benelux vodka trademarks by the shareholders of former Russian oil company Yukos
- Secrid v. defendants. Representing Secrid in various litigation matters for infringement of its patents, design rights and copyrights.
- AkzoNobel v. Kirs. and network of software infringers. Obtained EU-wide orders and seizures against multiple resellers infringing rights to AkzoNobel’s paint mixing software, eliminating a network of infringing resellers of Sikkens paint.
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- Vereniging Intellectueel Eigendom Procesrecht Advocaten (VIEPA)
- European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
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PUBLICATIONS
- R.J.F. Grijpink, “Dutch Supreme Court Rules on Two-Step Assessment of Infringement and File-Wrapper Estoppel”, European Patent Law in Practice, 2024, volume 3, p. 125;
- J. van den Broek and R.J.F. Grijpink, “SEP Trends in Europe”, LES Japan News, Vol. 64, No. 2, June 2023;
- The Sedona Conference, “Framework for Analysis of Venue Selection for Global Patent Litigation: Strategic Considerations”, October 2022 (contributing editor);
- Overview of Dutch Copyright law for Kluwer’s Copyright Litigation Smart Charts™ 2013-2020 (kluweriplaw.com)
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Young EPLAW, Anti-(anti-)suit injunctions (April 2021)
- University of Groningen, Masterclass Procedural Patent Law (April 2021)
- Academic Startup Competition, IP Issues in the Life of a Startup (January 2021)
- Masterclass FRAND (CPE), FRAND in the Netherlands after Huawei/ZTE – lessons learned and open ends (November 2020)
- Guest lecturer Trademark Law at Tilburg University (2015 to 2022)
- Guest lecturer Patent Law at Leiden University (2018 – 2020)
- Frequent inhouse and external IP law updates for clients (2015 – to date)
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WHAT OTHERS SAY
- “Strong and up-and-coming patent litigator in telecoms and mechanics” Competitor in JUVE Patent 2024
- “Roeland Grijpink graces the firm with international in-house experience.” IAM Patent 2024
- Rising Star 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Managing Intellectual Property
- Ones to watch in Dutch Patent Litigation 2023 JUVE Patent
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Formations
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Corporate Law, LLM, 2012)
Universität Hamburg, Università di Bologna, University of Haifa (European Master in Law & Economics, LLM, 2011)
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Economics and Business Economics, BSc, 2010)