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Ilse Werts

General Counsel

  • Eindhoven Netherlands
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As Taylor Wessing's General Counsel in the Benelux, I advise our board on strategy, risk management and office policies, and provide legal advice on claims and contracts.

Ilse is highly valued for her outstanding analytical skills and ability to think outside the box. With her innate gift for understanding new kinds of technology, she has played a key role in multiple high profile pharmaceutical patent proceedings and noteworthy cross-border litigation before the Dutch court in her previous role as Intellectual Property attorney at law.

As of 2023, she is in charge of the legal affairs within Taylor Wessing Benelux, advising the board on strategy, innovation projects, risk management and office policies.

Expertise

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Brands & advertising
Commercial & consumer contracts
Patents & innovation
Advertising & unfair competition

CV

Since 2023 General Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2020-2023 Business Development & Innovation Manager, Taylor Wessing
2015 - 2020 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries
2013 Paralegal, Hoogenraad & Haak advertising & IP lawyers
2009 - 2010 External court clerk civil law, Arnhem
2013 LLM, Dutch Law, Cum Laude, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
2012 LLM, Business Administration, Maketing, Cum Laude, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010 Erasmus program, Libera Università Internazionale LUISS, Rome, Italy
2009 LLB, Dutch Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Career

Since 2023 General Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2020-2023 Business Development & Innovation Manager, Taylor Wessing
2015 - 2020 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2015 Lawyer, Deterink Attorneys and Notaries
2013 Paralegal, Hoogenraad & Haak advertising & IP lawyers
2009 - 2010 External court clerk civil law, Arnhem

Education

2013 LLM, Dutch Law, Cum Laude, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
2012 LLM, Business Administration, Maketing, Cum Laude, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
2010 Erasmus program, Libera Università Internazionale LUISS, Rome, Italy
2009 LLB, Dutch Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

Publications

Wat te doen met de proceskosten uit kort geding na een andersluidend bodemvonnis? IE-forum.nl IEF 14656, 13 February 2015
Overzicht van actuele ontwikkelingen op het terrein van het intellectuele eigendomsrecht,  Juridisch Up to Date, 1 November 2014

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