Intellectual property law / TMT

Ingvild Hanssen-Bauer is specialized within intellectual property rights, with a particular focus on patents, trademarks and matters related to the Norwegian Marketing Act, such as protection of trade secrets and unlawful copying.

She has extensive litigation experience within these fields of law, and has represented clients in a large number of complex cases, both before the District Court and the Court of Appeal.  Ingvild assists both Norwegian and international clients, especially within the pharmaceutical industry, oil/gas and aquaculture industry.

Ingvild also assists our clients with agreements related to intellectual property rights, such as license agreements, research and development agreements, agreements on transfer of intellectual property rights and confidentiality agreements.

Her practice also includes assistance related to ICT-contracts and data protection.

2017 Partner, Kvale; 2015 - 2017 Specialist Counsel, Wikborg Rein, Oslo; 2008 - 2015 Partner, Wikborg Rein, Oslo; 1999 - 2007 Senior Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo; 1994 - 1998 Associate, Wikborg Rein, Oslo; 1992 Assistant Lecturer, Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL), University of Oslo

Member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Board for domain names; Member of the council of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office; Deputy member of the Intellectual Property Law committee at the University of Oslo, Member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s Law Committee on Intellectual Property and Marketing Law; Member of NIR (the Norwegian Group of AIPPI) and Eplaw (the European Patent Lawyers Association).

1993 Cand. jur., University of Oslo