Partner
Wim is a partner and heads our Intellectual Property team and Disputes & investigations team. His practice covers all aspects of IP law including patents, trademarks, designs and copyrights. He specialises in patent litigation cases in technical areas such as technology, engineering and life sciences. Clients describe Wim as highly skilled, commercially minded, and a stand-out partner in the Netherlands.
Wim works with national and international clients facing patent litigation in the Netherlands and other jurisdictions. He has nearly two decades of experience in IP law, and will be able to guide you through any IP related issues. If you need top-tier advice on national and international licensing strategies, or need to know how to best exploit your IP portfolio (legal structuring, security rights, financing, licensing, R&D and collaboration agreements), then Wim is the perfect person for you to talk to.
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 releaseUmfassende Beratung eines führenden internationalen Gesundheitsunternehmen in einer Vielzahl von Rechtsgebieten einschließlich Pharmarecht und Patente.
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.
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