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Intellectual property and media

Westerberg & Partners

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Westerberg & Partners is home to 'a consummate team of IP specialists with deep bench strength and expertise'. The department has an excellent reputation for handling the full breadth of contentious and non-contentious IP matters, often spanning multiple jurisdictions. Practice head Henrik Wistam garners praise as 'a great litigator', specialising in trade mark disputes. Jonas Westerberg is 'one of the best patent litigators in Sweden', and Stefan Widmark is a highly regarded media and entertainment law expert. Helena Wassén Öström brings extensive experience in handling the management of large trade mark portfolios, while Ludvig Holm is a key name in the team for patents and trade marks. Litigator Björn Rundblom Andersson and Wendela Hårdemark are singled out for their contributions.

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Testimonials

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  • 'Consummate team of IP specialists with deep bench strength and expertise. A standout team in the Swedish market.'
  • 'Jonas Westerberg is a significant name in the industry with many years experience in the field. Reassuring and calm, he is a senior statesman, guiding the ship into safe harbours. Björn Andersson is a name to bookmark.'
  • 'This is a true partnership. The advisors are very interested in and knowledgeable of our business and industry. We always get advice from the most qualified person at the firm. The lawyers are open-minded, correct and flexible.'
  • 'Open minded, flexible, knowledgeable and always eager to explain their legal work to us in an understandable way.'
  • 'Simply the best - Westerberg is the number one choice in Sweden. Very responsive, proactive, well-informed, business and solution-oriented, cost efficien to nema a few. All qualities that you would like your lawyers to have.'
  • 'Henrik Wistam - the Man in Sweden. Super good. Best legal mind for contentious IP in Sweden.'
  • 'Wendela Hårdemark handles complex patent matters in a very practical manner, enabling our management to understand the issues, risks and possibilities at hand. She is a strategic problem solver, continuously one step head of her client. Jonas Westerberg is one of the best patent litigators in Sweden.'
  • 'Helena Wassén-Öström: calm and experienced and always to the point. Henrik Wistam: great litigator, experienced and loves tactical moves.'

Key clients

  • H&M
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Illumina
  • Novartis AG
  • Finansiell ID-teknik BID
  • AB Electrolux
  • Permobil Group
  • Skruf Snus AB
  • Tele2
  • Embark Studios
  • Avicii Music AB
  • Gotain AB
  • Gallery Mikael & Thomas Asplund

Work highlights

  • Represented Illumina in parallel patent proceedings regarding the infringement and validity of patents in the DNA sequencing field.
  • Represented a prominent fintech company in trade secrets, copyright and patent litigation.
  • Managing the global trade mark portfolio of H&M.

Lawyers

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Stefan Widmark
Stefan is specialized in Intellectual property, Media & Entertainment and Marketing Law, covering both contentious and non-contentious matters and working with clients in all industries. Within Intellectual Property law he has a particular focus on Copyright and Trademark law. Within Media & Entertainment his main experience lies in the film, tv, music, gambling and computer gaming industries.
Jonas Westerberg
Jonas has 30 years’ experience as a lawyer, and he has specialized in intellectual property disputes for 25 years. He represents clients in both arbitration and court, with a special focus on patents, copyright and trade secrets. Jonas' work highlights include patent litigation concerning the pharmaceutical products Losec, Prozac and OxyContin; successfully representing a client in the first IP case passing the requirement of leave to appeal and certiorari to the Supreme Court since the restructuring of the Swedish IP court system in 2016; arbitration concerning scope and term of a major multi-jurisdictional cross-licensing agreement; and defending the validity of a client’s infringed patent relating to large infrastructure projects that resulted in one of the largest awards of damages in Swedish patent history. He has also represented a client in a dispute concerning electronic signatures with a value of SEK 7 billion.
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Henrik Wistam
Henrik specializes in IP litigation and IP strategy. He advises clients on trademarks, unfair competition, copyright and design issues in a wide variety of industries handling cases in the Swedish courts, at The Swedish Patent and Registration Office and at EUIPO. He is regularly involved in the co-ordination of proceedings with parallel actions in different jurisdictions. Henrik has acted in a range of high-profile IP matters, which include applications for interim injunctions, asset freezing orders and search orders. Key cases are the first case on sanctions and the EU trademark before the Court of Justice of the EU; pharma trademarks before the General Court of the EU; community designs and the spare part exemption; unconventional trademarks including 3D and color marks; copyright and product design; and the launch of international unauthorized use programs and customs protection. Henrik has advised on several governmental proposals including the implementation of the EC Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of IP rights. He lectures on IP law at the Faculties of Law at Stockholm University and Uppsala University.
Helena Wassén Öström
Helena specializes in IP strategy and heads the firms Trademark and Design Prosecution department. She focuses on the development and roll-out of the strategy surrounding the protection and maintenance of IP-rights, and especially trademarks, designs and domain names. Helena also collaborates extensively with the vast network of local attorneys Westerberg engages for the handling of matters on behalf of the portfolio clients Westerberg has the privilege of assisting in connection with their global trademark filing and enforcement work. Helena is regularly involved in actions before The Swedish Trademark Office and EUIPO, as well as Swedish courts and the Board of Appeal, in connection with both prosecution and enforcement.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Henrik Wistam

Other key lawyers

Jonas Westerberg, Ludvig Holm, Björn Rundblom Andersson, Stefan Widmark, Helena Wassén Öström, Siri Alvsing, Wendela Hårdemark, Hans Eriksson

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