About
Koen Bijvank is a partner at Brinkhof and a member of the firm's executive board, qualified as an attorney-at-law and as both a Dutch and European patent attorney. He specialises in patents for the chemical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors and represents clients in patent litigation and European Patent Office opposition proceedings, acting for example as lead advocate for The Broad Institute in defence of its CRISPR patent portfolio.
Practice areas
Intellectual PropertyPatentsLitigation
Office
Expertise
ChemicalsPharmaceuticalsBiotechnologyPatent LitigationEPO Opposition ProceedingsCRISPR / Genome-Editing Patents
Education
- Master’s degree in Organic Chemistry, University of Groningen (1995)
- LLM in Intellectual Property Litigation, Nottingham Law School (2011)
- Postgraduate certificate in Intellectual Property Litigation, Nottingham Law School (2011)
Admissions
- Attorney-at-law (Netherlands)
- Dutch Patent Attorney
- European Patent Attorney