Sture Rygaard > Plesner > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

Plesner Offices

Plesner
37 AMERIKA PLADS
2100 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Sture Rygaard

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+45 36 94 11 18 sry@plesner.com

Work Department

IP Law; Patent Law; Life Science – Regulatory & IP; IP transactions; Trademarks, Business Signs and Domain Names

Position

Sture Rygaard’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 sector.

Sture became President of the European Patent Lawyer’s Association (EPLAW) in 2022. He has been a member of the EPLAW board since 2017.

Sture is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars, for instance:

  • The first EPLAW Webinar on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) – February 2022;
  • C5’s Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation in Europe Conference in Amsterdam (update on SPC practice and UPC aspects) – May 2022;
  • Co-organizer of a conference on the UPC together with the Danish Employer’s Confederation – June 2022;
  • EPLAW Congress 2022 in Brussels (on lis pendens in the UPC) – December 2022

He is co-author of a comprehensive book on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and a number of other IP publications.

Sture also represents clients in other IP matters, including IP contracts, transactions, strategy and trademark litigation.

Sture was Chairman of the AIPPI Standing Committee on Trade Secrets from 2017 to 2022.

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Denmark > Intellectual property

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Sture Rygaard – Plesner

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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