A Brazilian validity decision was the most significant win Genentech had scored and will have played a key role in this settlement. An evidentiary order by the UPC helped as well.
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Courts and counsel
Brazil (where the dispute was most advanced)
The technical opinion was issued by a unit of Brazil’s INPI (DIRPA / CGPAT II / DIPAT IX): division head Daniel Marques Golodne, and examiners Elielton Rezende Coelho and Renata Stiebler.
Counsel for prevailing patentee Genentech: RNA Law’s Rob Rodrigues (whom we, like a number of our readers, met at last week’s Patent Litigation Europe event in Amsterdam), Brenno Telles, and Tatiana Alves. The firm also has substantial expertise in standard-essential patent litigation and an ip fray firm profile listing numerous achievements in that area.
Counsel for Organon: Lefosse’s Rafael Salomão and Ricardo Nunes.
Unified Patent Court
Court of Appeal panel
Panel 3: Presiding Judge Ulrike Voss (“Voß” in German), Judge-rapporteur Nathalie Sabotier, and Judge Bart van den Broek.
Brussels LD panel
Presiding Judge (and here, judge-rapporteur) Samuel Granata, Judge Petri Rinkinen (Helsinki, Finland), and Judge Rute Lopes (Lisbon, Portugal).
UPC counsel for Genentech
Freshfields’s Rutger Kleemans, Allard van Duijn (not listed on the firm’s website), and Nerissa Teeuwen.
UPC counsel for Organon
Pinsent Masons (an ip fray firm profile is in the making): Judith Krens, Vural Ergisi, Alasdhair McDonald, and Emily Flood.
The Hague District Court
Organon utilized the “Accelerated Regime in Patent Matters” (VRO), a fast-track system unique to The Hague for high-stakes patent cases. Such cases are handled by a specialized division consisting of Presiding Judge Edger Brinkman (also known from the UPC: January 28, 2026 ip fray article), Judge Margot Kokke, Judge Marije Knijff, and Judge Marjolein Visser (all of which are also UPC judges).
Presumably the parties’ counsel was the same was in the UPC.
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (where the settlement first became publicly discoverable)
United States District Judge Claire C. Cecchi.
Counsel for Hoffman-La Roche and Genentech: Robinson Miller’s Keith J. Miller, Michael J. Gesualdo, and Bradley A. Suiters; and Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone’s Eric Alan Stone and Naz E. Wehrli.
Counsel for Henlius and Organon: Stone Conroy’s Rebekah Conroy.