Peter Blok is a professor of patent law. He is a fellow of the Centre for Intellectual Property Law (CIER) at Utrecht University. He is also a judge at the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court and a deputy judge at the Court of Appeal of The Hague. He specialises in intellectual property law, in particular patent law.

From 2015 to 2023, Peter Blok was a judge at the Court of Appeal of The Hague. From 2007 to 2015, he was a judge at the district court of The Hague. Before that, he was a lawyer in Rotterdam and Amsterdam.

In 2002, Peter Blok obtained his PhD in Tilburg for a dissertation on the right to privacy. He did part of his doctoral research at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C. He studied law and philosophy in Leiden.

Inaugural lecture date
26.01.2018