Expert Committee

Maija Tipaine has been practising as a sworn advocate in Riga, Latvia, since 2010. Her practice encompasses arbitration and litigation. Among other achievements, Maija has represented her clients before the Latvian Constitutional Court and in the legislative process, contributing significantly to the enhancement of the arbitration framework in Latvia. 

Maija is also actively engaged in mediation. She frequently speaks at events and publishes articles on alternative dispute resolution.

Malik Chapuis serves as Judge in the First Instance Court of Paris. He is assigned to the Third Civil Chamber, which specializes in Intellectual Property and has national jurisdiction in the first instance for patents in France. 

As the Chamber's mediation referent, he has significantly promoted and developed Amicable Dispute Resolution methods in the field of Intellectual Property. Mr Chapuis lectures in law at Sciences Po and at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. 

He regularly speaks at the National School for the Judiciary and other venues on issues involving Intellectual Property, European Union law and Amicable Dispute Resolution.

Pierfrancesco C. Fasano is a Milan-based avvocato, admitted and practising before the Italian Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice.

With over 25 years of experience, Mr Fasano is appointed as an arbitrator and mediator by Italian and European institutions, as well as counsel.

He has served as scientific director at MFSD, an European online out-of-court dispute settlement body and academy.

Pierfrancesco is a lecturer on conflict resolution and negotiation at universities and law societies.

He also acts as a senior expert for the European Commission's comparative studies, Council of Europe's training programmes, and contributes to legal guides and scientific articles published by other international institutions and universities.

Håkan Borgenhäll is a Senior advisor at Vinge Law Firm in Stockholm and a member of the Swedish Bar Association. 

IP specialist with focus on litigation for more than 35 years, he was appointed by the Swedish Ministry of Justice to assist as an expert in the Swedish governmental investigation on the European Unitary Patent System as well as in the drafting of a new Swedish Patent Act and other similar tasks. 

Håkan also serves as an expert for other organizations involved in the work on the rules for the Unitary Patent Court, including the CCBE.

Lina Mickienė is a legal professional with over three decades of experience in intellectual property (IP) law, public administration and international cooperation, holding senior leadership roles at the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania (SPB) since 1996. 

Since 2008, she is serving as Deputy Director of the SPB, with responsibility for the strategic and operational supervision of the Inventions, Trademarks and Designs and Applications and Documents Management Departments. 

Lina has extensive experience representing Lithuanian interests at national, EU, and international levels, including active participation in EU Council working groups and representation at EPO, EUIPO, WIPO, OECD and WTO. 

She served as Justice Attaché for industrial property matters at the Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU (2005–2008), contributing to EU legislative processes on patents, trademarks, designs and enforcement. She played a key role in Lithuania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU, chairing Council working groups.

Complementing executive responsibilities, she has an extensive academic profile as a lecturer in intellectual property law since 1998 and, since 2023, acts as an institutional mediator in IP disputes. 

After graduating in law and a year of practical training at court in Graz, Petra Asperger joined the Austrian Patent Office in 1994. 

Besides working on intellectual property proceedings, she has also been active in legislative projects and international activities from the very beginning. 

Since 2008, she has been acting as chairperson in inter partes proceedings, which sparked her interest in ADR in the field of intellectual property.

Thomas Klippstein has served as legal researcher, civil matters judge, head of unit in the Federal Ministry of Justice and legal counsel in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy for more than 40 years. 

He did research on European Union law and later became a judge in the City of Hamburg. He decided cases with copyright and intellectual property law issues. 

In the Ministry of Justice, Thomas dealt with copyright law, international civil procedure law, international private law, European cooperation in civil matters and especially arbitration (in commercial matters, sports, consumer protection, investment protection issues). 

As member of a working group, he helped to legally frame the PMAC’s organisational structure. 

Until 2025 Thomas served as inhouse counsel for the Ministry of Economics and Energy in Investor-State arbitration proceedings against Germany.

Vítor Palmela Fidalgo is a Lawyer, Arbitrator, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. He is also the Legal Director at Inventa IP Firm. 

Vítor is a Researcher at the Private Law Research Center (CIDP) and has worked as a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Munich). He teaches or has taught courses in Labour Law, Civil Procedural Law, Property Law, Intellectual Property Law, Data Protection, and E-Commerce Law. He also served as a Lead Consultant for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) from 2020 to 2021. 

Vítor has participated in various arbitrations as an arbitrator and recently collaborated with Portuguese authorities on the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market, specifically regarding alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. 

He is the author and coordinator of several academic works in Portugal and abroad.

Simon Dack started his career in patents in 1987, when, as a recent chemistry graduate from Queen Mary University of London, he joined the European Patent Office in Munich as a patent examiner in the fields of petrochemistry and chemical engineering. Some years later, having passed the examinations to become a European patent attorney, and having moved to The Netherlands, he changed course and switched to law. He was called to the English bar in 1999 and completed his pupillage at 8 New Square, a chambers specialized in in intellectual property.  

From 2001, he worked, first under his home title and subsequently as a Dutch advocaat, as a patent litigator in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices at a leading Dutch law firm. In 2005 he became a partner of the firm. At the end of 2010 he and other colleagues set up what became a leading European boutique patent litigation firm, Hoyng Monegier. There, he continued to act for many of the leading global players in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical devices, with occasional excursions into other technical fields. 

Extra-curricular activities included serving for a ten-year period as one of the "Eight Wise Men", an advisory body for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs made up of members of the Dutch bar and bench, together with Dutch business leaders. He spent a similar period as a member of the IP advisory committee of the Dutch Bar Council (the Orde van Advocaten). He spent four years working part-time as a lecturer in intellectual property law at the University of Leiden and is a guest lecturer at the University of Utrecht and, from 2027, the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon. He has published widely and continues to contribute to the standard Dutch practitioners' commentary on patent law. 

In 2023, having spent 36 years of his career in patents, 23 years of which involved patent litigation, he decided to take a career break. He now divides his time between trial advisory work for law firms, including arranging mock first instance and appeal trials for UPC litigants, and working as one of the appointed experts at the PMAC.