Sture Rygaard > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Plesner Offices
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Sture Rygaard
Work Department
IP Law; Patent Law; Life Science - Regulatory & IP; IP transactions ;Trademarks, Business Signs and Domain Names; Entertainment and Copyright Trade secrets
Position
Sture’s primary practice area is patent law. He is a very experienced litigator and represents a number of pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients, as well as clients in the construction industry, tech/software, and agricultural sectors.
Sture is a partner in Plesner’s IP team. He represents clients in different IP matters, including trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights as well as IP contracts, transactions, strategy, and trademark litigation.
Sture holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen and an LLM from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is admitted to the Supreme Court of Denmark and has been a member of the board of the European Patent Lawyer’s Association (EPLAW) from 2017 to 2023 (maximum term), and he was president from 2022 to 2023. He is also Vice President of the Danish AIPPI Group.
Sture is co-author of a comprehensive book on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and a number of other IP publications, and he regularly lectures at seminars and conferences.
Plesner has Denmark’s strongest IP team and has been a powerhouse in IP and life science law for decades. The whole IP team is proud to have been rated as leading in the IP field in all ratings since ratings began. We work as a team, share knowledge, and assist each other on cases, which is the only way we can remain at the forefront of IP law.
We strive to be among the best IP firms in Europe.
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Denmark > Intellectual property
(Leading partners)Plesner is well-known in the industry for its strong trade mark prosecution practice, handling high-profile IP litigation and assisting in copyright, design, and trade mark matters. The department has an impressive portfolio of clients, especially well-known design businesses, and advises leading technology companies on copyright matters. The team also has strengths in marketing law, consumer law, and e-commerce law, advising on all aspects of online and offline marketing. Kasper Frahm heads the trade mark and design team and is an expert in trade mark law. Other key names to note are Sture Rygaard with vast experience in patent and trade mark litigation; litigator Mikkel Vittrup, whose work includes the enforcement of patents and regulatory rights; and Peter-Ulrik Plesner
who has a history of representing blue-chip clients in patent, trade mark and marketing disputes.
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