Timo Minssen

Timo Minssen

Jur. Dr., Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3286-4888
20012020

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Timo Minssen is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) and the Founding Director of UCPH's Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). His research, supervision, teaching & part-time advisory practice concentrates on Intellectual Property-, Competition & Regulatory Law with a special focus on new technologies, big data & artificial intelligence in the health & life sciences. This involves a plethora of legal & ethical issues emerging during the lifecycle of biotechnological and medical products and processes -  from the regulation of research and incentives for innovation to technology transfer and commercialization. Timo is also presenting frequently on a variety of pressing topics at international IP symposia, major law firms, the Universities of Oxford & Cambridge, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Yale,  MIT, the Broad institute, as well as at the European Medicines Agency and National Ehics Councils etc.. He has published 2 books, as well as 100+ articles and book chapters in leading journals, such as Science, Nature Biotech, Nature Electronics, PLoS-Computational Biology, Biotech. J., Drug Discovery, JLB, BLR, Person.Med., IIC, EIPR, ECLR, JIPLP, GRUR Int., Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop., IPQ, QMJIP, NIR & EUConst.LR. He is also a regular contributor on Harvard Law School's "Bill of Health" blog. Prior to founding CeBIL, Timo headed CIIR's  Copenhagen Biotech & Pharma Forum (CBPF).

Main research area

  • AI & Big Data in the Health & Life Sciences
  • Pharmaceutical-, Life Science- & Biotech Law
  • Comparative European & US Patent Law
  • Intellectual Property Law & Open Innovation
  • EU Competition- & US Antitrust Law

Fields of interest

  • Synthetic Biology & Nanotechnology
  • Law & (Emerging) Technologies
  • EU Law
  • Medical & Health Law
  • E-Health & Big Data

Appointments

Past appointments

Editorial tasks

Peer-review

  • IIC- International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law
  • The Lancet
  • European Pharmaceutical Law Review
  • QMJIP- Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
  • PLOS Biology

Research management

  1. Collaborative Research Program in Biomedical Innovation Law (Principal Investigator)
  2. Co-supervisor for a PhD thesis and collaborator in an interdisciplinary research project on "Regulation of Biosimilars" (in co-operation with the Copenhagen Centre for Regulatory Sciences (CORS) and the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Completed:

  1. Global genes, local concerns: Legal, ethical and scientific challenges in cross-national biobanking and translational exploitation (Principal Investigator, WP leader & steering committee member, 1 PhD student)
  2. CoNEXT - Fertilizing the ground and harvesting the full potential of the new neutron and X-ray research infrastructures close to UCPH (coPI, WP leader & steering committee member, 1 PostDoc)
  3. BioSYNergy: Synthetic Biology - towards a Bio-Based Society (coPI, WP leader & steering committee member, 1 PhD student and post Doc)
  4. AdManI: Additive Manufacturing and Innovation: Technical, Economic, Legal, and Policy Related Aspects of Rising Technologies (International Research Partner)
  5. User Generated Law: Re-constructing Law in the Knowledge Society (coPI, WP leader)
  6. Co-supervisor for a PhD thesis and collaborator in an interdisciplinary research project on "Counterfeit Medicines" (in co-operation with the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences).

PhD students

  • Behrang Kianzad - Excessive prices, competition law & compulsory licenses in the pharma sector (supervisor)
  • Hrefna Dögg Gunnarsdóttir, Data Ethics and Patient Perspectives in Digital Medicine (supervisor)
  • Ivan Hadaya - IPRs in IoT & Health Tech (appointed supervisor)
  • Louise Christine Druedahl - Regulation of Biosimilars (co-supervisor at KU Health)

Completed:

PostDocs related to research projects

CV

Timo Minssen is Professor of Law specializing in legal aspects of biomedical innovation at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH). He is the Managing Director and Founder of UCPH's new Center for Advanced Studies and the Collaborative Research Programme in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL). As part-time Senior Advisor, he also specialises in supporting research infrastructures and their business partners in legal & governance matters.

Previously, Timo had been Professor of Biotechnology Law at UCPH's Centre for Information & Innovation Law (CIIR), Visiting Research Fellow at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford (UK), Harvard Law School and at the Chicago-Kent College of Law (US), as well as Max Planck stipendiate at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition in Munich (Germany). Moreover, he was trained in the German Court system (Referendariat) and worked for shorter periods at the European Patent Office (EPO), leading law firms, tech start-ups and and for an interdisciplinary epigenetics project as a fellow of the Swedish Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies..

Timo holds a German law degree (Staatsexamen) from Georg-August-University in Göttingen, as well as Swedish biotech & IPR related LL.M., LL.Lic., and LL.D. degrees from Lund University and Uppsala University. His PhD thesis delivered a comprehensive study on the patentability of biopharmaceutical technology in the US & Europe, which received the Swedish King Oscar award. He has also received the Awapatent and Jorcks Foundation Research Prizes and was a finalist of the Swedish Wallenberg Academy Fellows program. 

Education & Visiting Scholarships

2016Visiting Research Fellow, University of Cambridge (UK).
2014Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford (UK).
2013-14Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School (US).
2012LL.D. - Doctor of Laws (Swedish "juris doktor"), Lund University, Sweden.
2007Visiting Scholar with course responsibility, Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA.
2005-07Max Planck Stipendiate, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property-, Competition-, and Tax Law, Munich, Germany.
2005LL.Lic. - Licentiate of Laws, Studies in Molecular Biology & Russian, Lund University, Sweden.
2003M.I.C.L. - Master of International and Comparative Law, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2002-03Ref. iur. - "Referendariat", Department of Public Prosecution & District Court, Lübeck, Germany.
2002LL.M. - Master of European Affairs & Suffolk University (US) Summer School, Lund University, Sweden.
2001Juristisches "Staatsexamen" & Dipl. Jur., University of Göttingen, Germany.


Employment 

2018-Professor of Law, Director of CeBIL, UCPH, Denmark.
2016-17Professor of Biotechnology Law, UCPH, Denmark.
2013-16Assoc. Professor of Intellectual Property & Innovation Law, UCPH, Denmark.
2009-13Ass. Professor in Intellectual Property Law, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark.
2009Research fellow, Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (Epigenetics group), Lund   University, Sweden.

2008-09          

Adjunct lecturer in EU-, Competition-, Market- & Intellectual Property Law, Lund University & Växjö University (now Linné University), Sweden.

2007Guest-Professor and course director, Chicago-Kent College of Law, USA.

2003-08

PhD stipendiate in Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden.

2002-03Rechtsreferendar, State of Schleswig Holstein, Germany.


Part-time employment, internships etc.

2006-09 

Legal counsel in the life science sector, Magle AB, Sweden.

2007 European Patent Office, Munich, Germany.
2002Counsel, camPoint AG, Wiesbaden, Germany.
2001Mannheimer Swartling, Berlin, Germany.
2000Satorius AG, Göttingen, Germany.
1999Lagerlöf & Leman (now Linklaters), Stockholm, Sweden.
1998Landahl & Wistrand (now Wistrand), Gothenburg, Sweden.
1997Müller, Loebell & Ludewig, Jever, Germany.
1996District Court (Jever) & Department for Agriculture (Göttingen), Germany.

Teaching

Teaching in courses for Professionals and PhD -students

Knowledge of languages

  • German (native)
  • English  (full professional skills)
  • Swedish (full professional skills)
  • Danish (limited professional skills)
  • Norwegian (limited skills)
  • Russian (basic)
  • French   (most basic EU certificate)
  • Advanced Latin Proficiency Certificate ("Grosses Latinum")

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Faculty of Law
  • Intellectual Property Law & Policy
  • Big Data Law
  • Privacy
  • Medical Law
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Pharmaceutical Patents and Competition Law
  • Regulatory Affairs
  • European Law
  • comparative law

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