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Carine van den Brink

Carine is a lawyer with a unique proposition. She combines 20 years of legal experience in life sciences with a medical background and in-depth knowledge of the biotech and technology markets.

She specialises in intellectual property licensing, research and development driven contracts, pharmaceutical contracts and corporate law. Carine guides her clients through the various phases of their career, including spinning out businesses from universities, obtaining financing (equity, loans, or subsidies), securing strategic partners, intellectual property exploitation, clinical development, market approval, and commercialisation.

In 1987, Carine obtained her medical degree of the University of Groningen and, in 1989, her law degree of the University of Amsterdam. She worked for the Dutch law firm Stibbe and at the same time, held the office of registrar of the Dutch Medical Practioners Disciplinary Tribunal. After leaving Stibbe, she worked as corporate counsel for Pharming, the first biotechnology company in The Netherlands.
In 2002, she started a life sciences law firm. Carine’s clients include well-known European biotech companies, knowledge institutes, academic hospitals, and venture capitalists.

Carine holds a unique position at the intersection of law and biotechnology. She lectures at Leiden University, NIABA BioBusiness Masterclass, AMC Summerschool and Masterclass Medical Devices. Because of her wide experience and expertise, Carine frequently functions as jury member for life sciences venture awards.

From 2005 until early 2011 Carine served on the supervisory board of ProFibrix. Until mid 2012, she served on the supervisory board of Cristal Delivery. She is a member of the Life Sciences Pre-Seed Grant Committee of the Netherlands Genomics Initiative.
Carine is a member of Licensing Executives Society (LES Benelux), the Netherlands Biotech Industry Association (NIABA), BioFarmind, Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), and the Dutch Association Pharmacy and Law (VFenR).

Carine is listed in the Who is Who Life Sciences for IP and Transactional work.

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Erik Vollebregt

Erik is a lawyer specialised in EU legal issues relating to medical devices. He has wide experience in life sciences legislation and regulatory, at EU and Dutch level. Erik was trained as intellectual property and competition lawyer. He has gained experience in contentious matters, commercial contracts, and transactional work at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. He also worked for three large international law firms.

Erik worked and lived in Brussels for several years, and is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, and Swedish. Erik is acknowledged by Chambers Europe for his work in the field of intellectual property and life sciences.

Erik’s software and engineering family background urged him to specialise in regulatory intellectual property and legal work in the medical technology industry. His clients range from the largest listed to the smallest startup companies.

Erik is a prolific writer and publishes in life sciences legal and regulatory journals on a wide variety of subjects. He is an editor of the Dutch life sciences law and regulatory journals Jurisprudentie Geneesmiddelenrecht and JGR Plus, as well as and author of a Dutch handbook on misleading and comparative advertising law Oneerlijke handelspraktijken, misleidende reclame en vergelijkende reclame. Additionally, he has a weblog on legal and regulatory aspects of medical technology, Medicaldeviceslegal. Erik is further authoring several medical technology chapters of RAPS' EU Fundamentals of Regulatory Affairs. He often lectures at (inter)national conferences and is a guest lecturer on pharmaceutical law, medical technology law and advertising law at the universities of Groningen and Twente.

As additional external activity Erik is president of the NEN (Dutch Standardisation Institute) Platform on Software and Medical Devices.

His memberships include the Netherlands Biotech Industry Association (NIABA), the Dutch Association Pharmacy and Law (VFenR), the Dutch Association for Healthcare Law (Vereniging voor Gezondheidsrecht), the Dutch Association for Advertising Law (VvRr), and Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS)

Erik is also a cyclist, long distance runner, scuba diver, and Apple user.

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Karin Verzijden

Karin became involved in the life sciences field in 2008, when working in technology transfer for an academic hospital, for a period of three years. Before that, for over ten years, she worked as an intellectual property lawyer at the biggest law firm in The Netherlands and at an international firm with a dedicated IP practice. Since then, Karin has evolved into an IP licensing expert, combining her solid IP background with expanding knowledge of and appetite for the life sciences sector.

As an in-house counsel of an academic hospital, Karin gained specific knowledge of private-public partnerships. As an attorney, she, nowadays, assists both knowledge institutes and spin-outs in shaping their relationships around research and intellectual property. Furthermore, Karin works with diagnostics and therapeutics companies as well as with public service national foundations as far as advice and litigation at the crossroads of R&D and IP are concerned. In view of the ongoing convergence of the medical sciences and the food and nutrition sciences, Karin is counselling innovative entities in the food sector in regulatory issues regarding market access.

Karin’s professional memberships include Licensing Executives Society (LES Benelux), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), the Dutch Copyright Association, and the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design.

In addition to her law degree, Karin took a master of arts degree in French. Karin also has a broad cultural and culinary interest.

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Annemieke Kooy

Annemieke has been practicing in the area of intellectual property law for her entire career as lawyer. Her practice consists of patent, trade mark, trade name, domain names, design right and copyright litigation. Furthermore, she has experience in licensing, cooperation and non-disclosure agreements in national and international matters. Through her work for pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, Annemieke has acquired specific expertise relating to Supplementary Protection Certificates and regulatory proceedings regarding marketing authorisations for medicinal products. She also has experience in (advertising) claims for regulated products, for example food.

Annemieke is a member of the Dutch Association Pharmacy and Law (VFenR), Licensing Executives Society (LES Benelux), Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPPI), the Dutch Copyright Association, and the Benelux Association for Trademark and Design.

She has a broad cultural interest and frequents art musea, (classical) music concerts, opera, plays and art house movies. She likes to experiment with hobbies that bring her something new (on an amateur level), such as taking lessons from a silversmith or performing in the bar association's cabaret show.

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Sofie van der Meulen

Sofie is a graduate of Leiden University with a degree in administrative and constitutional law. She also studied public management.

In the past decade Sofie has gained broad experience in administrative law, both in business and in her consultancy work for several public administrations. Her activities comprised advice and litigation in the fields of economic administrative law, social security law, environmental law enforcement, access to government information, governmental liability and public order issues. She lectures on administrative law and is a specialist in European public procurement law and administrative procedural law.

Sofie is involved in the food sector through among other things the organization of the Food Law Academy and is co-author of the EU food law roadmap (Landkaart Levensmiddelenrecht) and specializes in legal and regulatory aspects of medical technology.

She is a member of the Dutch Association for Food Law (NVLR) and the Dutch Association for Administrative Law (VAR).

Sofie enjoys watersports and photography and drives a Smart Roadster.

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Marjon Kuijs

Marjon has worked for several of the top Dutch law firms as a secretary, know-how and education associate, and paralegal associate. Organising all kinds of practicalities for a niche firm suits her well.

In an earlier life, Marjon studied commercial economics and political sciences (international relations). For six years, she worked and lived in different developing countries in West-Africa and South East Asia. November 2012 she graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master International and European Law.

Marjon enjoys cooking and regularly takes Bikram yoga classes.

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