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Timo Minssen
Timo Minssen

Visiting Scholar
January - March 2014

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Timo Minssen is Founder and Managing Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) and Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (UCPH). Before joining UCPH, Timo graduated from law school in Göttingen (Germany) in 2001 and was trained in the German court system from 2002-2003. He also passed the Swedish "juris licentiate" (LL.Lic.) and "juris doctor" exams (LL.D.) and holds two IP- and Biotech- related masters degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Lund (Sweden). In addition he worked for a Life Science company and for various law firms in Sweden and Germany.

From 2007-2009 Timo was a stipendiary at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich. He was also responsible for a course in comparative patent law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (USA) and worked for the European Patent Office. At Lund University he was engaged as a teacher at the Faculty of Law and in interdisciplinary epigenetics research at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies. At UCPH he is co-leading CIIR's Copenhagen Biotech & Pharma Forum and teaches international classes for both students and pharma professionals in EU-, Competition-, and Pharmaceutical Law and IPR. Timo is a frequent speaker on a variety of topics and has published extensively in comparative US and European patent law, EU- and Competition Law. In 2013-14, in addition to his time at the Petrie-Flom Center, he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford.

Learn more about Timo via the CeBIL website.