Erla S Árnadóttir

Practice Areas

Intellectual property law, IT, data protection, employment law.

Career

Erla S Árnadóttir is one of Iceland's leading experts in the fields of IP and IT law. Ms. Árnadóttir has practised law since 1984. She joined LEX as a partner in 2000 and leads the firm's IP department. She was an attorney at KPMG and KPMG Attorneys at Law 1982-2000

Between 1991 and 2000, Ms Árnadóttir was chair of the Trademarks and Patent Appeals Committee. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Copyright, which advises the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs on copyright matters. She has been a lecturer in IP law at the University of Iceland for several years; she has also written scholarly articles and frequently lectures on IP rights.

Professional Memberships

Icelandic Bar Association.

Publications

- Erla S. Árnadóttir (1985). Tölvur og höfundaréttur. Tímarit lögfræðinga, 35(2), 115 – 124.

- Erla S. Árnadóttir (1990). Hugbúnaður: skilyrði og umfang höfundaréttarverndar. Tímarit lögfræðinga, 40(3), 148 – 174.

- Erla S. Árnadóttir (1990). Datenverarbeitung und Urheberrecht in Dänemark – die erste nordische Urheberrchtsnovelle im Vergleich, GRUR International Teil, 39(4), 290 – 299

- Erla S. Árnadóttir (2004). Höfundarréttur og afdrif falsaðra myndlistarverka, Ritið (3), bls. 123 – 135.

- Erla S. Árnadóttir (2015). Developments in Iceland since the XIV Nordic Copyright Symposium in 2015, Nordiskt Immaterialt Rättsskydd, 84(6), 594 – 598

- Peter Schønning, Erla S. Árnadóttir, Torkil V. Rasmussen og Jens Virgar Jakobsen (2016). Strejftog gennem den vestnordiske ophavsret. Nordiskt Immaterialt Rättsskydd, 85(4), 390 – 415

- Erla S. Árnadóttir. (2006). Iceland. In Peter Schimanek og Frank-Rainer Töpfer, Remedies and Public Procurement Laws in Europe. (74 – 79). Berlín: Baker & McKenzie.

- Erla S. Árnadóttir. (2008) Immaterialrettens særlige processformer. In Mads Bryde Andersen og Jonas Christoffersen, Det 38. nordiske Juristmøde i København 21. – 23. august 2008 (343 – 349). Kaupmannahöfn: Den danske styrelse for Det nordiske Juristmøde.

- Erla S. Árnadóttir, Lena Markusardóttir and María Kristjánsdóttir. (2019). Iceland – Health and Pharma Overview. OneTrust DataGuidance database. – https://www.lex.is/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Iceland-Health-and-Pharma-Overview-_-DataGuidance.pdf

Personal

Board of Directors of the Association of Icelandic Lawyers 1989-1991

Managing Director of the Icelandic Law Journal 1990-1991

Board of Directors of the Educational fund of Icelandic Bar Association 1999-2018

Fjölís (RRO) Arbitration Tribunal 1991-1993

Board of Copyright Society from 2006

Board of Society for insurance law 2002 – 2008

Alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Data Protection Authority 2001 ( – formerly the the Data Protection Commission) – 2004

Chairman of the Trade Marks and Patent Appeals Committee 1991-2000

Copyright Committee from 2006 (alternate member from 1995)

Member of the Compensation Committee established under Act No. 69/1995 on state compensation to victims of crimes 1996 – 2006

Chairman of Complaints Committee on Equal Status 2011 – 2018 (alternate member from 1997)

Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the the Icelandic Society for Information Processing 1997 – 2009

Competition Appeals Committee 2000-2009 (alternate member from 1998)

Alternate member of the board of National Gallery of Iceland 2010 – 2012

Alternate member of The Icelandic Court Cases Review Commission 2018 – 2020

Clients

Reykjavík Energy

Carbfix ohf.

Örn Software ehf.

Crankwheel ehf.

Languages Spoken

English

Danish

German

Experience

Ms Árnadóttir has dealt with a variety of issues in the fields of IP and IT law. These include the preparation of various IP agreements, such as licensing agreements; protection of the interests of numerous companies, government agencies and individuals regarding the establishment and use of different IP rights; registration of trademark and domain name rights; and litigation arising from breach of copyright, trademark, patent and trade name rights. Ms Árnadóttir has been active in consulting for start-up companies of various kinds and has assisted start-ups with their trademark strategies.

Education