INFORMATION FROM THE EPO
Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO)
For the 2009 - 2011 term of office the members of the Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO are as follows:
I. Industry | Dr Axel Braun F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG Patent Department (PLP) Grenzacherstr. 124 4070 Basel SWITZERLAND | Roger Burt IBM United Kingdom Limited Department Manager Intellectual Property Law Department Mailpoint 110 Hursley Park Winchester, Hampshire SO21 2JN UNITED KINGDOM | Jacques Combeau Air Liquide Direction de la Propriété Intellectuelle 75 Quai d'Orsay 75321 Paris Cedex 07 FRANCE |
| Josef Dirscherl BMW AG Leiter Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Patente, Marken, Lizenzen 80788 München GERMANY | Fredrik Egrelius Ericsson AB Patent Unit Service Layer & Multimedia 164 80 Stockholm SWEDEN | Dr Francesco Macchetta Bracco Imaging SpA Director Intellectual Property Via E. Folli 50 20134 Milano ITALY |
| Alois Peham Siemens AG Head Corporate Innovation Center Patents Siemensstr. 88 1210 Wien AUSTRIA | Pekka Rantanen KONE Corporation Manager Patents P. O. Box 677 05801 Hyvinkää FINLAND | Leo Steenbeek Philips International BV Prof. Holstlaan 6 P.O.Box 220 5600 AE Eindhoven NETHERLANDS |
| Patrick Theunis Agfa-Gevaert NV General Manager Septestraat, 27 2640 Mortsel BELGIUM |
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II. Professional Representatives | Selda Arkan epi Vice-President Alfa Patent Ltd. Co. Ağaçiraği Sokak 7-9, Pamir Apt. No 3 Gümüşsuyu 80090 Istanbul TURKEY | Enrique Armijo Elzaburu S. A. Miguel Angel, 21 28010 Madrid SPAIN | Luciano Bosotti Buzzi, Notaro & Antonielli d'Oulx Via Maria Vittoria 18 10123 Torino ITALY |
| John Brown Vice-President of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA) Heskett Hall Hesket Newmarket Wigton, Cumbria CA7 8JG UNITED KINGDOM | Kim Finnilä epi President AWEK Industrial Patents Ltd. OY P. O. Box 230 00101 Helsinki FINLAND | Sylvain Le Vaguerèse epi Vice-President AGC Flat Glass France National Headquarters 114, Bureaux de la Colline 92213 Saint-Cloud Cedex FRANCE |
| Francis Leyder Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy Zone Industrielle C 7181 Seneffe (Feluy) BELGIUM | Edward Lyndon-Stanford Chairman of the epi EPPC and Litigation Committee 2 Tanza Road London NW3 2UB UNITED KINGDOM | Christopher Mercer Carpmaels & Ransford 43 - 45 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2RA UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Ferenc Török Danubia Patent and Law Office Chemical Branch P.O. Box 198 Budapest 1368 HUNGARY |
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III. Members appointed "ad personam" | Professor Dietmar Harhoff INNO-tec-Institut für Innovationsforschung und Technologiemanagement Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Kaulbachstr. 45 80539 München GERMANY | Dipl.-Ing. Walter Holzer Patentanwälte Schütz und Partner Schottenring 16 Börsengebäude 1010 Wien AUSTRIA | Greg Perry European Generic Medicines Association Director General Rue d'Arlon 50 B 1000 Brussels BELGIUM |
| Lennart Nilsson President Stockholms Innovatörskrets - STIK Hammarby Alle 3 120 32 Stockholm SWEDEN | Professor Ansgar Ohly Universität Bayreuth ZR VIII - Faculty for Law and Economics Universitätsstr. 30 95447 Bayreuth GERMANY | Dr Ingrid Schneider Universität Hamburg FSP BIOGUM / FG Medizin Falkenried 94 20251 Hamburg GERMANY |
| Professor Geertrui van Overwalle Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Center for Intellectual Property Rights Minderbroedersstraat 5 3000 Leuven BELGIUM |
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SACEPO - Working Party on Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office
For the 2009 - 2011 term of office the members of the Working Party on Guidelines are as follows:
I. Industry | Alois Peham Siemens AG Head Corporate Innovation Center Patents Siemensstr. 88 1210 Wien AUSTRIA | Dr Werner Fröhling Volvo Technology Corporation Corporate Patents 06820, M 1.7 405 08 Gothenburg SWEDEN | Leo Steenbeek Philips International BV Prof. Holstlaan 6 P.O.Box 220 5600 AE Eindhoven NETHERLANDS |
II. Professional Representatives | Anette Hegner Hegner & Partners Banemarksvej 50 2605 Brøndby DENMARK
| Gabriele Leißler-Gerstl Patentanwälte Hoefer & Partner Pilgersheimer Str. 20 81543 München GERMANY
| Dr Emmanuel Samuelides Leof. Alexandras 43 114 73 Athens GREECE
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SACEPO - Working Party Rules
For the 2009 - 2011 term of office the members of the Working Party Rules are as follows:
I. Industry | Jacques Combeau Air Liquide Direction de la Propriété Intellectuelle 75 Quai d'Orsay 75321 Paris Cedex 07 FRANCE
| Josef Dirscherl BMW AG Leiter Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz, Patente, Marken, Lizenzen Hufelandstr. 8d 80788 München GERMANY
| Anita Skeppstedt AstraZeneca AB Pepparedsleden 1 431 83 Mölndal SWEDEN
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II. Professional Representatives | Sigmar Lampe Marks & Clerk B.P. 1775 1017 Luxemburg LUXEMBURG | Gabriele Leißler-Gerstl Patentanwälte Hoefer & Partner Pilgersheimer Str. 20 81543 München GERMANY | Dr Francis Leyder Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy Zone Industrielle C 7181 Seneffe (Feluy) BELGIUM |