The Hague

Last week I got a chance to go to The Hague and attend an oral proceeding at the European Patent Office. The opposition was as fun as patent law can get, but was very educational for me. However, the Hotel and more specifically the resturant in the hotel was fantastic. The resturant was obviously a five star resturant because once we had ordered our own starters and main dishes we were treated to three seperate apetizers. It was the kind of food that looks good as well as tastes fantastic. You know, the kind of food that comes in small portions and looks like it isn't fit for a snack. Since we had a lot of them though I was suprisingly full at the end of the meal.

Here are a few pictures from my trip:

This is me in front of the EPO.

Me doing my best to help in preparing for the oral proceedings.

A forbidden picture of the inside of the EPO. For some reason they don't want people taking photos of the foyer. It could hardly be for security reasons, because I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who would want to blow up a patent office let alone come all the way out here to the middle of nowhere to do it.


This has got to be the biggest picture of Sir Winston Churchill in the world!. The hotel was named in his honor: The Winston.