Mr Lasse Skaarup Christensen > Gorrissen Federspiel > Aarhus, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
Gorrissen Federspiel Offices
SILKEBORGVEJ 2
8000 AARHUS C
Denmark
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Mr Lasse Skaarup Christensen
Work Department
Intellectual Property & Technology
Position
Lasse Skaarup Christensen heads up our IP & Digital Business practice group. He assists large Danish and foreign companies with IP law, technology-driven or generally very complex or challenging cases.
Lasse has advised on IP law issues, distribution issues in many countries, market law, licences, large sets of rights and on IP strategies in many different industries. He also has extensive experience with advising franchises, retail companies and other retail chains.
Career
Current directorships. 2006 – Member of the Board of Gorrissen Federspiel 2006 – The Danish Institute of Arbitration, arbitrator 2001 – Partner with Gorrissen Federspiel, Head of IP & Technology department 1992 – Assistant professor in competition law, intellectual property law and marketing law, University of Aarhus 1991 – 2001 Attorney-At-Law and partner with Bøgh Andersen & Henriksen (now LETT), Aarhus 1992 – 1997 External lecturer in Danish and International business law, Aarhus School of Business 1992 – 1997 External lecturer in law of obligations, University of Aarhus 1991- Assistant district judge, Danish Ministry of Justice.
Languages
English.
Memberships
INTA, LES, AIPLA
Education
2013 right of audience before the Danish Supreme Court, 1996 Admitted to the Danish High Court, 1995 LL.M in Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law 1994, Attorney-At-Law 1991, Cand.Jur., University of Aarhus.
Lawyer Rankings
Denmark > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)Gorrissen Federspiel ‘‘s IP and digital business team assists global corperations with design rights, trade mark and design portfolio management, and patent enforcement. Practice head Lasse Skaarup Christensen excels in contentious matters, advising franchises and retail chains on licenses, market law, and global distribution. Kenneth Kvistgaard-Aaholm is esteemed for patent infringement cases, managing trade mark portfolios and providing insights on utility models and trade secrets. Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe specialises in EU law, interpreting directives on online platform liability. Jakob Plesner Mathiasen navigates copyright intricacies in the music industry.
Denmark > Media and entertainment
The ‘highly skilled team, with an extremely strong background within media and entertainment law’ at Gorrissen Federspiel assists a broad range of key Danish and international players. The group provides specialist advice in relation to media content, licensing, rights, contracts, data, regulatory and competition law issues, alongside marketing, personal data, IP, financing and litigation, among others. IP expert Lasse Skaarup Christensen’s practice includes copyright, digital business, marketing and franchising. He co-leads the practice alongside specialist media and entertainment practitioner Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, who is praised as ‘outstanding in his understanding of the legal challenges that AI presents within the media and entertainment arena’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Intellectual property Denmark
- Leading individuals Denmark > Intellectual property
- Media and entertainment Denmark
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