His particular expertise lies in the field of medical (bio)technology, diagnostics and medicines. Because of his background at Introgene/Crucell, Mark has a special affinity with Life Science startups. He has a wide experience in patent cases before the court in The Hague.

Working experience

• Patent Attorney, V.O. (1998-present)
• IntroGene (now Crucell), Rijswijk (1995)
• Post-Doc at Leiden University (1993)
• Medical Research Council, Mill Hill, London (1992)
• Visiting Scientist, Cornell University New York (1992)

Education

• PhD in Medicine, Leiden University (1992)
• MSc in Biochemistry, University of Amsterdam (1987), Major in Molecular Oncology, Dutch Cancer Institute

Publications

• Co-author of article ‘The patentability of stem cells in Europe’, IAM Life Sciences 2015.
  Einerhand, M.P.W. (2011): Advance offering of generics found to infringe. Managing Intellectual Property: Vol 205: page: 87.
• Einerhand M.P.W. (2010): A contribution to: Legal and intellectual property issues associated with stem cells. In: Stem Cells; scientific facts and fiction, (C. Mummery; I. Wilnut, A van de Stolpe and
  B.A.J. Roelen), Academic Press: Elsevier.
• Einerhand M.P.W. and van Melle, J (2004): Patenting of inventions in the field of bio-informatics.
  In: The new avenues in Bioinformatics, (Seckbach, J and Rubin, E eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands.
• Principle inventor on Patents and Patent Applications: Einerhand, M.P.W. and Valerio (1997). WO 98/32870: US 6,232,105: A conditional replication and expression system. Einerhand, M.P.W. and Valerio (1997). WO 99/32647: Adeno-associated virus and adenovirus chimeric recombinant viruses useful for the integration of foreign genetic information into chromosomal DNA of target cells in gene therapy. Einerhand, M.P.W. and Valerio (1996). WO98/24924: NZ 336185:
• Transduction of primate hemopoietic repopulating stem cells. Einerhand, M.P.W. and Valerio (1995). WO 97/20943: US 6,140,103: Regulated protein expression in stably transfected mammalian cells. Einerhand, M.P.W. (1992) Gene transfer into hemopoietic stem cells: prospects for human gene therapy. University of Leiden.

Professional & Community Activities

• Member of the Steering Committee World IP Forum 2015
  Former member of the European Qualifying Examination committee III

Languages

• English
• Dutch
• German