Research

Sharing nature and its biodiversity: Claims to genetic resources, technology and biotechnological products in a proprietary perspective.

NWO program: The Societal Component of Genomics Research. Dissertation.

Relevant experience

Ph.D. researcher, CIER, Molengraaff Institute, Utrecht University, November 2002 – present.

Advice, exchange. NUFFIC; UNESCO; IAS (ICBG).

Guest researcher, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Munich, Germany, May-Juli 2004.

Guest researcher, Centre for Environmental Law, Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia, April 2004.

Counsel, Simmons & Simmons Trenité, Rotterdam, -- October 2002.

Researcher, IP/Biotechnology, Prof. R. Barsh, Engelberg Center for Innovation Law & Policy, New York University School of Law, -- July 2001.

LL.M. Comparative Jurisprudence, New York University School of Law, -- May 2001.
(Thesis in the field of IP & Biotechnology)

Dutch private law, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University, -- July 2000.
(Thesis in the field of IP & Biotechnology)

Trainee, the Office of the Public Prosecutor, mrs. mr C. van der Bas, January-March, 1999.

Trainee, Smeets Thesseling van Bokhorst Spigt, New York, 1998, and Curacao, 1997.

Legal counsel, Vereniging Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland, Amersfoort, -- 1998.

Recent publications

Koopman, J., Introduction [to part II], in Willem Grosheide (ed.), Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights - A Paradox (Edward Elgar 2010) [Not yet issued]

Koopman, J., [forthcoming 2009], Stimulating diversity and progress by patent law: Legal and economic issues to be resolved. In: M.L. Montagnani, A. Flannagan (ed.), Intellectual Property and Social Justice: a Law and Economics approach, Edgar Elgar, Londen (16 pp.)

Koopman, J., 2008, Human rights implications of patenting biotechnological knowledge, in: P.L.C. Torremans (ed.), Intellectual property and human rights, Kluwer Law International, Alphen a/d Rijn, the Netherlands, 2008, p. 533-582.

Koopman, J., 2008, Human donors' right to consent to patenting biochemical inventions: Is it real?, Personalized Medicine, 2008 5(3), p. 199-203.

 Koopman, J., 2006. Amidst peril and progress: Conservation of diversity and patent law. In: Bogers, R.J., Craker, L.E.; Lange, D. (Eds.) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Agricultural, Commercial, Ecological, Legal, Pharmacological and Social Aspects. Frontis-series, Springer, Chapter 10, p. 129-154. Click here

Koopman, J., 2006. Opinie: Werk aan de octrooirechtelijke winkel [Opinion: Work to be done on patent law]. Staatscourant (87), May 4, Perspectief, p. 7.

Koopman, J., 2005. Octrooiering van biotechnologische uitvindingen en goede zeden: Recht onder vuur! [Patenting biotechnological inventions and morality: Law in the line of fire!] Deel 2 [Part 2], Bijblad voor Industriële Eigendom, 73/12, p. 503-512.

Koopman, J., 2005. Octrooiering van biotechnologische uitvindingen en goede zeden: Recht onder vuur! [Patenting biotechnological inventions and morality: Law in the line of fire!] Deel 1 [Part 1], Bijblad voor Industriële Eigendom, 73/11, p. 447-455.

Koopman, J., 2005. Reconciliation of proprietary interests in genetic and knowledge resources: Hurry cautiously. Journal of Ecological Economics, 53/4, pp. 523-541. click here

Koopman, J., 2003. Biotechnology, Patent Law and Piracy: Mirroring the Interests in Resources of Life and Culture. Electronic Journal of Comparative Law, 7(5), pp. 1-19. click here

Koopman, J., 2003. Merken in de zin van artikel 2 van de merkenrichtlijn. Het Europese Hof van Justitie in geuren en kleuren [Trademarks pursuant to article 2 of the EC trademark directive: The European Court of Justice on Scent and Color] Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht 7(8), pp. 205-211.

Koopman, J., 2002. The patentability of transgenic animals in the United States of America and the European Union: A proposal for harmonization. Fordham Journal for Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, XIII(1), pp. 103-204.