La Gro

Intellectual Property & Technology, Healthcare & Life Sciences

Associate Intellectual Property & Technology

Iris has been working as an attorney at law at La Gro since 2023 in the Intellectual Property & Technology team and is a member of the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector group. Iris specialises in patent law with a focus on the Pharma & Life Sciences practice. She has dealt with issues such as second medical indication patents, the concept of plausibility and issues surrounding ABCs. Iris also has experience in drafting and negotiating complex licence agreements. Iris has made an important contribution to the analysis of difficult issues in various large-scale patent proceedings. She has unrivalled knowledge of the case law of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) within the section. She was part of the team that assisted Spanish and Belgian clients in infringement proceedings concerning medical devices before the Local Division Brussels.

Before joining La Gro, Iris worked as a lawyer at Radboudumc, where she specialised in legal issues surrounding paediatric clinical trials.

Outside her legal career, Iris has always been socially engaged. She has held various board positions and was an active member of the Advisory Board of Stichting Maashorst in Uitvoering. She has been involved in elderly care (Red Cross) and in helping refugees from Syria.

Committee member LES Benelux YMC Board member of ‘Stichting Belangenbehartiging Ruiters & Menners Herperduin/de Maashorst’ Member of professional organisations such as AIPPI, LESI and VF&R