This interactive discussion explores how knowing what evidence and arguments have already succeeded or failed in litigation/oppositions around the world provides a head start and advantage in preparing or defending cases at the EPO and courts.
Alex Eichner
Alexander Eichner is a Senior Director of European Legal & Regulatory Analysis at IPD Analytics. He observes, analyses, and predicts EPO oppositions and appeals, national court proceedings, and UPC hearings, and coordinates IPD’s coverage of these disputes across Europe and globally. He also analyses IP portfolios in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech sectors and contributes to the development of new legal and insights products.
Before joining IPD Analytics in 2021, he spent seven years at top-tier Munich patent law firms specializing in biotechnology. He is a qualified European and German Patent Attorney and a registered UPC Representative. He holds a BSc and MSc in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich and a doctorate based on research conducted at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
Florian Brandt
Florian Brandt is a Senior Director on IPD Analytics' European Legal & Regulatory team. He is a qualified European and German Patent Attorney and a registered UPC Representative. At IPD, he works on legal analyses of key decisive patent validity and infringement litigation with the most significant potential market impact on small and large molecule pharmaceutical products across all major European venues. Florian is also involved in developing IPD’s tracking, analytics, and insights solutions.
Before joining IPD in 2018, Florian worked at a top-tier patent law firm in Germany in prosecution and litigation of life science patent portfolios covering both small and large molecule products (2010-2018). He holds science degrees in Biochemistry from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD for studies at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry.
Joshua Bleet
Joshua Bleet is the Executive Vice President of International Legal & Regulatory Analysis at IPD Analytics. Joshua joined IPD 17 years ago after working as a patent litigator and clerking for Judge Alvin A. Schall of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He leads a team of attorneys who observe, analyze, and predict court and patent office proceedings in Europe (EPO, national courts, UPC), Japan, China, India, Canada, Australia, Korea, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, and Taiwan). He also leads teams dedicated to Global Litigation Tracking, Expert Witness Insights, Settlement Analytics, and Claim Construction Insights. Previously, Joshua led IPD’s development of the European Supplementary Protection Certificate Tracker. His favorite part of the job is solving problems thought to be unsolvable.