Tjibbe Douma

Partner, Bird & Bird

He is a partner in the Intellectual Property Group based in Amsterdam, with a focus on technology-related matters, in particular patents and trade secrets.

He advises and litigates for clients in among others the life sciences, technology & communications and energy & utilities sectors. He has extensive experience in high-end multi-jurisdictional patent disputes before national courts, at the EPO and in the Unified Patent Court.

He is a UPC representative and is representing/represented clients in 8 cases before the UPC in Europe where he is the lead representative in 5 of those cases. These are UPC cases before The Hague, Milan, Dusseldorf and Nordic Baltic Divisions. Milestones at the UPC in this regard include:

• the first ever UPC expert witness hearing (in the Nordic Baltic division)
• the first main hearing before the Nordic Baltic Regional Division
• the first ex parte Preliminary Injunction obtained at the Local Division in Milan (and only the fourth thus far in the UPC)