MAQS IP participants won the final of nir moot court in stockholm

The final of NIR moot court took place December 19, 2008 in Stockholm Supreme court. MAQS Law Firm IP participants won the final of this years moot court. The winning team consisted of MAQS law Firm, Copenhagen, IP student Lene Nielsen, law student Peter Heiler and tutor MAQS Law Firm, Copenhagen, Associate Malene Fagerberg Rosendahl. The team won for best written pleadings (Statement of Claim and Statement of Defence) and for best oral pleadings. The team were acting as Defendant in the fina...

MAQS represents North Face in supreme court victory

The North Face Apparel Co. and their legal representative Richard Wessman at MAQS Law Firm in Stockholm, were successful in a recent case in the Swedish Supreme Court. The court decided against the defendant, having infringed North Face’s trademark rights by importing conterfeit North Face apperal. The decision clearly strengthens trade mark owners’ possibilities to combat pirate goods.

The Supreme Court held that, regardless of the fact that the fake goods were seized by the Swedish...

Strengthening the fight against ip-violations in Denmark

New Danish legislation enforcing higher levels of penalties for counterfeiting

MAQS's ip department represented in the final of nir (nordisk immateriellt rättskydd) moot court competition

This year two Danish teams from Copenhagen University have qualified for the final oral round of NIR Moot Court. The case will be pleaded December 19, 2008, in Stockholm Supreme Court and audience are welcome.

Malene Fagerberg Rosendahl from MAQS Copenhagen is tutoring one of the Danish teams and on her team Lene Nielsen from MAQS Copenhagen is participating. Maria Haugaard from MAQS Copenhagen is also participating on the other qualified Danish team . In the final oral rounds the Dan...

MAQS Law Firm copenhagen associate wins the prestigious award “Best litigator od the year"

Since the 23rd of October this year and during the following month, 22 students from the Danish law school have participated in Juridisk Diskussionsklubs (The Legal Debate Society’s) annual moot trial.

The case that had to be solved by the students was written by Erling Borcher from Kromann Reumert Law Firm and concerned a problem within the scope of the curriculum of the first 2 years of law school. The 22 contestants then had to act as lawyers and draft and file a writ and then a de...

MAQS Law Firm participates in the copenhagen competition on climate change

Anne Kathrine Eriksen from MAQS Copenhagen has been chosen to represent the University of Copenhagen in the Copenhagen Competition on Climate Change, which is an international negotiation competition hosted by the Copenhagen faculty of law.
Participation is by invitation only and includes the star alliance IARU Universities'' Law Faculties, who are invited to enter with one team each. Furthermore, selected universities from regions that are not represented in the IARU star alliance are...

EU twinning programme

Patent- og Varemærkestyrelsen har vundet ledelsen af et EU projekt kaldet EU Twinning Programme, som går ud på, at PVS skal lede uddannelsen af told, politi og andre myndigheder i de nye EU medlemsstater i toldkontrollen til begrænsning af handel og import ind i EU af kopivarer.

Dagen skal bruges til udveksling af oplysninger og erfaringer med projektet og rettighedshavernes bestræbelser på at komme problemet med kopiprodukter til livs og i løbet af i dag vil der blive holdt præsentati...

Peter Gustav Olson Joins MAQS copenhagen

Attorney Peter Gustav Olson has joined the Copenhagen office of MAQS as a partner. Peter has practiced trademark law for 17 years and has significant European Community Trademark (CTM) and international domain name experience. At MAQS he will continue to focus his practice on CTM trademark prosecution and resolution of conflicts, dot-eu domain name registration and resolution of conflicts, Danish trademark and internet issues, including domain names, and Danish and EU data protection issues.<...

MAQS Law Firm is looking for a Trademark Assistant (copenhagen office)

Please see attached file for further details (in Danish).