Katrine Malmer-Høvik > SANDS > Oslo, Norway > Lawyer Profile
SANDS Offices
CORT ADELERS GATE 33
0254 OSLO
PO BOX 1829 VIKA
Norway
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Katrine Malmer-Høvik
Work Department
Intellectual Property
Position
Partner and Head of the Intellectual Property and Data Protection group.
Career
Katrine Malmer-Høvik is specialised within the legal field of Intellectual Property Rights (IP rights). She is the head of the firm’s Intellectual Property and Data Protection group. Katrine has extensive experience in assisting Norwegian and foreign companies in protection and management of IP rights such as patents, trademarks, design, domain names and corporate names in order for the company to administrate the competitive advantage in the best manner for the said IP rights.
She also assists clients in relation to copyright, marketing issues, business secrets and technology matters. She is an experienced lawyer in contract law. This involves preparation, review and quality assurance of agreements.
Katrine also provides legal advice on aspects related to personal data protection including implementation and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation/GDPR.
She regularly litigates cases before the courts, and is also lecturer in intellectual property issues and contract law. She is frequently used as a lecturer at the Norwegian Industrial Property Office.
Languages
Norwegian, English
Education
- 1997 – Université de Bordeaux, France – Intellectual property rights and human rights
- 1998 – University of Oslo – Cand. jur.
- 2001 – University of Oslo – Data protection
- 2022 – University of Oslo – Copyright
Lawyer Rankings
Norway > Intellectual property
(Leading individuals)Handling a high volume of contentious matters, SANDS advises international and domestic clients on trade mark and trade secrets disputes as well as non-contentious trade mark protection work. The ‘highly skilled’ Katrine Malmer-Høvik leads the team and has a broad practice that spans the full range of IP work. The group also includes John Steffen Gulbrandsen, who takes point on IP work in the publishing and media industry, as well as senior associate Henriette Wiker, who ably assists on contentious matters.