Bas Pinckaers heads Van Doorne's Patent & Trade Secrets Team. He advises on European patent and licensing strategies and on coordinating and conducting national and European patent litigation. He also advises in design cases where technical may play a role. Bas is very experienced in setting up and implementing border measure programs. He has successfully represented global companies before the Courts of The Hague. He is familiar with patents covering industry standards and the interface with EU antitrust law.

He is co-editor of a loose-leaf treatise on patent law and a member of the editorial board of the magazine IER (Intellectuele Eigendom & Reclamerecht = Intellectual Property and Advertising Law), in which he comments patent cases. He is secretary of the Dutch group of AIPPI, a member of the AIPPI Standing Committee on the Unitary Patent / Unified Patent Court, and an active member of EPLAW and Union. He teaches patent law to LL.M Students who specialize in patent law. Bas has published numerous articles and regularly lectures on subjects related to patent and trade secrets enforcement. He is the founding father of and speaker at the Euroforum conference on the Unitary Patent Package, which discusses the latest developments regarding the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court.

Education
Bas holds an LL.M. degree from the University of California (Berkeley) and a doctorate degree in law from the University of Amsterdam. He also graduared in art history at the Univeristy of Amsterdam.