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STIP LTD

The only company offering high quality IP and swimming advice

Who we are

Or better, Who am I? I am Joeri Beetz, and I founded Stip Ltd in 2020. In my daily life, I work as a patent attorney for Keltie in London. In a former life, I spent all day in and around the swimming pool, helping young swimmers to swim faster.

Stip stands for Swim Training and Intellectual Property advice and offers a unique combination of services that you never knew you needed. If you're looking for someone who can help you to improve your personal best time on the 100 meter butterfly and effectively conduct oral proceedings before the EPO Boards of Appeal, look no further. You'll never find a company that can help you better with both.

Patents

Because I am currently fully (and happily) employed by one of the best IP law firms in Europe, Stip Ltd does not offer the usual commercial IP consultancy, or patent drafting, prosecution, and opposition work you might usually expect from an IP consultant. However, since 2007, I have always dedicated a substantial part of my time on training people in the various aspects of the patent attorney profession. Since Keltie is not a commercial training provider, I sometimes put on my Stip Ltd hat to provide some useful courses.

The courses I currently provide are all organised by Deltapatents or IPI Academy (formerly known as Management Forum). For the former, I primarily provide courses aimed at helping candidates to pass the EQE Paper C exam. For the latter, I provide claim drafting courses and a practical course on how to successfully conduct oral proceedings at the EPO and its Board of Appeal. Visit the websites linked above if you want to know about those courses, or contact me personally if you have questions not answered there.

Related to my EQE training activities, I further developed a website visualising some interesting EQE exam statistics. Unfortunately, the EPO stopped providing the data underlying this website and it is less interesting now than it was in the past. Nevertheless, it may still be worth a visit if you are interested in EQE statistics.

Swimming

This part of the Stip Ltd business is not very active yet, but I'd love to develop it in the future. Between the age of 5 an 35, I was to be found in a swimming pool almost every day. On many days, more than once. The initial plan was to become an Olympic swimmer, but that plan was quickly abolished when I discovered that I hardly had enough talent to qualify for the yearly regional championships. From then on, I started to spend more and more time on training and coaching.

I taught little children to swim and coached younger swimmers to medals in national championships. For the national (Dutch) swimming association, I organised swim camps and acted as a coach on special training days for the best young swimmers in the country. I also provided courses for new swimming coaches and special clinics for the more experienced ones.

When moving abroad, I sort of lost contact with the swimming pool. However, when I get a good opportunity to return to the world of swimming, I'd happily take it. I can help individual swimmers or groups of swimmers to improve their swimming skills, train and mentor coaches, or provide some technical and organisational consultancy to swimming teams. If you're interested, drop me a message.

The main thing is not to let go of the vine. - Johnny Weissmuller