Wim is a seasoned trial attorney with more than two decades experience representing clients in court. He heads our firm’s litigation department. Wim’s practice is centered on high-stakes, international patent and trade secret litigation, especially in the Life Sciences and SEP/FRAND space. Wim represents international pharma and (bio)tech companies before the Unified Patent Court and regularly coordinates international patent assertion campaigns and defense strategies in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Clients describe Wim as highly skilled, commercially minded, and a stand-out partner for complex tech litigation in Europe.
Wim holds a professorship in International Patent Litigation at the Católica Global School of Law in Lisbon, and has authored several books and articles on patent enforcement and the UPC.
Intellectual Property: Patents - Leading Partner
Individual Ranking - Intellectual Property
Leading indivudual: lawyers in patent litigation 2024
Recommended - individuals: transactions 2024
Silver - individuals: litigation 2024
Recommended lawyer: litigation: lawyers 2024
Individual IP patent – tier 4 2023
Patent star 2023
Recommended - individuals: transactions 2023
Silver - Individuals: litigation Recommended - Individuals: transactions - A superb destination for patent counselling and enforcement work, Taylor Wessing takes advantage of its global capabilities to deliver a comprehensive service to a diverse clientele. A recent example of this is its work for Ericsson, whereby the team asserted several SEPs against Samsung in Belgium and the Netherlands as part of its global strategy. Taking the lead on this matter was IP division captain Wim Maas, a widely respected authority on FRAND issues. The tenacious litigator acquits himself with distinction in the electronics industry, where his dynamic and methodical approach brings disputes to a swift and successfulclose.
Individual IP patent – tier 4 2022
Recommended lawyer: litigation lawyers 2022
Recognised as a "Patent star" in MIP's IP Stars 2021 rankings.
Silver - individuals: transactions 2021
Leading individual: litigation (Bronze): Also proficient in the life sciences, but a rangy litigator with a strong high-tech practice too, is Wim Maas. “Wim provides commercial and pragmatic advice and delivers to tight deadlines. He understands the pharmaceutical industry well and appreciates the pressures and goals of those within it.”
Recommended lawyer - Intellectual property: patents (Netherlands): Wim Maas and 'highly skilled, accurate stand-out partner' Judith Krens head the IP and IT practice at Taylor Wessing, where 'lawyers and patent attorneys provide great quality work'.
Leading individual: Patents
For US stock listed medical devise multinational we serve as the to-go-to team for global patent disputes before the European courts, including the Unified Patent Court.
We have acted for a stock-listed manufacturer of telecom infrastructure and owner of a valuable standard essential patent portfolio against the world’s largest handset manufacturers in global licensing disputes
We acted for a UK listed company on the theft of data and subsequent ransom of the company. We obtained an injunction against the hackers (PML v Persons Unknown) for the client, which was the first-time judgment had been obtained for a listed company against hackers in which anonymity was granted to the company in relation to the interim injunction and then on a permanent basis. The team co-ordinated the entire incident response, including instructing forensic IT and working heavily with UK cybercrime police.
Press releaseA leading international healthcare company on provision of European-wide advice across a variety of legal areas including pharmaceutical law and patents.
A collective organization in the agro business on litigation on plant variety rights and seizure of evidence up to the Supreme Court.
A US consumer goods company on patent litigation and revocation proceedings.
作者
作者 Dr. Benedikt Kohn, CIPP/E 以及 Alexander Schmalenberger, LL.B.
作者
作者 Irina Rebin
作者 Irina Rebin