Sam is a Judge at the Court of Appeal Antwerp, Belgium, and an external member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, as well as a member of the Legal Framework Group Unified Patent Court (Subgroup 1: Rules of Procedures of the Court and Subgroup 6: Rules on Mediation and Arbitration), Member of the “Conseil Benelux de la Propriété Intellectuelle” and member of the Belgian Board for Intellectual Property Rights in the industrial property section.