Sandart & Partners Advokatbyrå KB

Intellectual Property / Dispute resolution

Advokat, Partner.

Specialises in dispute resolution, intellectual property (mainly patent, copyright and trademark law), marketing law and protection of trade secrets.

Karin Westerberg is a skilled litigator with extensive experience from litigations concerning intellectual property rights. Karin Westerberg frequently represents Swedish and international clients in all fields of technology (e.g. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and mechanical engineering) in patent infringement and revocation proceedings in Sweden (including pan-European litigations). Karin Westerberg is also a Unified Patent Court (UPC) representative with experience from infringement and revocation proceedings before the Nordic Baltic Regional Division of the UPC. Karin Westerberg also represents clients in the pharmaceutical industry with regulatory issues, as well as represents clients in complex copyright and trade secrets litigations involving multiple infringement investigations and interim proceedings.

In relation to copyright, Karin Westerberg has a particular interest in works of applied art and is the chairman of the Svensk Form Copyright Panel, which is an impartial expert body within the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design, with the task to express an opinion on copyright protection for works of applied art and whether a copyright-protected work of applied art has been plagiarized.

Associate, Mannheimer Swartling, 2004-2005 Law Clerk, the District Court of Stockholm 2005-2006 Reporting Clerk, the Svea Court of Appeal, 2006-2007 Associate, Sandart & Partners 2007-2019. Partner since 2019 Qualified member of the Swedish Bar Association since 2011 Secretary of the Svensk Form Copyright Panel 2016-2021 Chairman of the Svensk Form Copyright Panel since 2021

English and Swedish

Swedish Bar Association, EPLAW, AIPPI and the corresponding Swedish organisation SFIR, ALAI and the corresponding Swedish Association SFU, the Swedish Competition and Market Law Association, the Swedish Pharmaceutical Society, the Committee on Intellectual Property ICC Sweden.

Gothenburg University (2004 LLM), Bond University, Australia (law studies).