Léon Dijkman

Léon Dijkman is assistant professor of law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam and a attorney-at-law with HOYNG ROKH MONEGIER in Amsterdam. He regularly appears before the Unified Patent Court and has published on various aspects of patent law in national and international journals. Léon obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2023 and that year, his thesis was awarded the GRUR Dissertation Prize in the Patent Law Category. His book The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law (Oxford: Hart 2023, open access) offers a theoretical justification of, and outlines practical applications for, the application of proportionality in European patent law and was an IPKat Book of the Year.