Vondst Advocaten N.V

The firm: Vondst was founded in 2007 as a boutique firm that focuses exclusively on IP, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, IT and data protection. All its partners have previously worked in these fields for well known international and national law firms. Since its start, Vondst has almost doubled in size.

Areas of practice
Patents and technology: This practice primarily focuses on litigation. Our attorneys handle both local and international cross-border patent cases. In particular, Vondst advises and litigates in the areas of pharma and life sciences, the chemical industry, mechanical engineering, and IT. Vondst also assists clients in the local and cross-border exploitation of their patents and technological know-how.

Trademarks, designs, copyrights and unfair competition: Vondst advises and litigates on the full range of these fields. As Vondst is primarily a contentious firm, we use Dutch and foreign trademark agents to assist in the filing of applications for trademark protection for our clients. With respect to copyrights and design protection the practice is not limited to traditional works like books and other kinds of writing, but actually more often involves product design, game and software concepts, databases and other information products and software.

Pharmaceuticals and life sciences: The attorneys at Vondst have years of litigation and advisory experience with regard to common legal issues in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries, including the registration of medicines and medical devices in a national, European or other context, parallel imports, counterfeiting, licensing, good clinical practice, reimbursement and pricing matters and advertising.

Plant variety rights: Vondst advises businesses specialized in breeding or exploiting plant material in the horticultural, fruit growing and seed industries about the possibilities available to protect the products they have developed and their breeding and horticultural methods, and about licensing and other types of exploitation agreements.

IT and sourcing: Vondst assists clients in contentious and transactional IT matters, such as in the field of sourcing, cloud computing, IT projects (agile and waterfall), license agreements, IT related public procurement, distribution and other commercial contracts, the protection of technology and information, illegal software and audits, internet, e-commerce and domain names.

Data protection: Vondst advises clients in matters involving compliance with law and regulations, including the GDPR and ePR, processing agreements, fines, damages and liability, enforcement by supervisors, data breaches, (online) marketing, information security, profiling, research, privacy policies, internet of things and smart devices. The lawyers of Vondst repeatedly and successfully have assisted clients in enforcement matters against the Dutch data protection regulators.