Amund Brede Svendsen

Practice Areas

Partner Amund Brede Svendsen's practice area is IP. He litigates patents (especially pharmaceutical, biosimilar and oil and gas services industry patents) and other IP rights. He advises on patents, trademarks, employee inventors’ rights, trade secrets, unfair competition and marketing law, and represents clients in disputes in these areas, and also in IP-related commercial litigation. He is a qualified arbitrator and has arbitrated international commercial disputes.

He is admitted to the Supreme Court of Norway.

Career

Partner, GjessingReimers 2019 - ; Partner Grette (1986 - 2019), Associate Smith, Grette, Eide, Midelfart and Vik (1981-1986) Research assistant, University of Bergen (1980-1981).

Admitted to the Supreme Court (2009).

Appointments: Panelist in the Board of appeal for Industrial Property Rights 2016 -.

Professional Memberships

The Norwegian Bar Association;

The Norwegian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (Chair, 2004 - 2020);

AIPPI (President of the Norwegian Group, 2004 - 2020);

European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)

Publications

The Norway Chapter in Patent Claim Interpretation – Global Edition, Edward Manzo Editor-in-Chief, Thomson West 2009-17.

Chambers Global Guides - Trade Secrets 2020: Law and Practice in Norway (with Julius Berg Kaasin)