Margot Kokke is a legally qualified judge at the UPC, and a deputy judge at the District Court of The Hague
12 August 2026NewsRegulation & IndustrySarah Speight

Exclusive: ‘In the end, I did it my own way’ and became a UPC judge

Unified Patent Court judge Margot Kokke has had an unconventional and oft-interrupted career as the “trailing spouse” of a diplomat. She talks to Sarah Speight about this and more in the fourth in a series of interviews with women judges at the court.

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