Bas-jan Jong
Owner And European Patent Attorney
Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas-jan Jong is an experienced European patent attorney and founder who has spent over 12 years helping entrepreneurs and businesses secure robust patent and trademark protection through his firm Inaday. Trained as an MSc mechanical engineer at Delft University of Technology, he blends technical depth with legal acumen to draft airtight patent applications and navigate national and PCT procedures. He built streamlined, fixed-price services that can deliver protection quickly and transparently, reflecting his entrepreneurial drive from earlier ventures like Boung. Beyond law, he contributes technical development work to open-source (notably enhancing PHPWord with advanced image and textbox positioning), showing a hands-on approach to solving practical problems. Known for clear client communication and global contacts, he focuses on strengthening clients’ competitive positions through pragmatic, technically informed IP strategies.
12 years of coding experience
MSc Mechanical Engineering, MSc Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English
Github Skills (6)
php10
document-generation10
image-manipulation10
docx9
html9
testing8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
PHPOffice/PHPWord
May 2014 - Jul 2014
A pure PHP library for reading and writing word processing documents
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bas-jan focused on extending the functionality of the PHPWord library, primarily by adding image positioning and textbox features. They introduced relative and absolute positioning for images, enabling more flexible document layout. Additionally, the user implemented textbox functionality, including the ability to add tables within textboxes. Further contributions fixed existing bugs related to header/footer image assignments and improved unit tests.
powerpointdocxpdfodtlibreoffice-writer
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