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28.04.11 Article: Exhaustion and Software Resale Rights 21.02.11 Power Point presentation Tjeerd Overdijk 'Benelux Trademarks Update' 21.09.10 EDVs in plant variety law 07.12.09 Life at the intersection of patent protection and plant breeding 22.10.09 Presentation (power point) 'Relevant public' by Tjeerd Overdijk at BMM Conference 07.10.09 Recent developments in Benelux trade mark law 28.09.09 Plant Variety Rights - A supposititious child 14.09.09 WTR Yearbook 2009 - Trademarks Benelux 01.06.09 Keyword Advertising 07.04.09 Postgraduate course on Plant Variety Rights 02.04.09 Postgraduate course on database rights 25.03.09 Legal commentary judgment on gaspedaal.nl 18.04.08 Enforcement of PVRs 04.02.08 World Trademark Review - The View Online 23.01.07 Presentation: Variety denominations and trademarks 16.10.06 Legal commentary zoekmp3.nl 23.04.06 Legal commentary on zoekallehuizen.nl
Tjeerd Overdijk studied Law at the Leiden University and has been a lawyer since 1984. Before he founded Vondst he headed the IP/IT department of the Amsterdam office of Baker & McKenzie and since 1995 he was a partner with Steinhauser Hoogenraad, Advocaten. Tjeerd is an all-rounder in the field of intellectual property, with a special interest in cases balancing on the edge of intellectual property and information technology, such as copyright and the Internet, database law, software and business method patents and trade mark and domain name disputes. He is a WIPO arbitrator for domain name disputes in .nl.
Tjeerd is also one of the very few specialists in plant variety rights. He was involved in the first court case in the world on the concept of essentially derived varieties (EDVs) and he has experience with litigation before the Board of Appeal of the Community Plant Variety Office in Angers, France. Tjeerd regularly teaches in post-graduate programmes on his fields of expertise. He is a co-author of the loose-leaf intellectual property textbook ‘Intellectueel Eigendom’ (chapter on copyright) and of a monograph on Intellectual Property & ICT (chapter on patent law).
Tjeerd is a member of various professional associations, including the Netherlands Copyright Association, the AIPPI, INTA, MARQUES and the European Communities Trademarks Association (ECTA).