Vinge has strengthened and developed the IP practice group by recruiting three sector specialists – intellectual property law postdoctoral researcher Stojan Arnerstål, senior IP lawyer Sofia Ljungblad and paralegal Kerstin Lagercrantz.
After several red-hot years, expectations were that there would be a decline in activity. Instead, in an interview in Dagens Industri, Vinge’s Christina Kokko describes an M&A market which is hotter than ever.
Vinge’s IP practice group has won two awards at the IAM/WTR Global IP Awards. Vinge was awarded both Swedish Patent Litigation Firm of the Year and Swedish Trademark Litigation Firm of the Year.
Swedish companies with any form of exposure to the UK will be affected by Brexit. How an individual company is affected is dependent upon the company’s operational area.
Since the 1990s, Pågen has held the trademark KRISPROLLS registered for crisp rolls. When Danish Bisca launched crisp rolls on the Swedish market under the trademark CRISP ROLLS Pågen reacted and wanted to stop the mark.
James Hope, partner and head of Vinge’s Dispute Resolution practice group in Stockholm as well as a Solicitor Advocate, provides an analysis of the latest turn of events concerning Brexit in an article written in English. What implications are there for the withdrawal agreement that the Attorney General’s advice was wrong?
On 20 November 2018, the Stockholm Administrative Court decided that dividends to eleven persons who indirectly owned units in the private equity firms Valedo Fund I AB and Valedo Fund II AB, shall only be taxed in the capital income tax category.
Vinge’s insurance team has written a brief summary of some of the main features of the Swedish regulations affecting foreign insurers with existing or contemplated business activities in Sweden.
Vinge has distinguished itself this year once again in the IFLR’s “Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms”, which is an annual ranking of the World’s leading law firms.
”During the last few years, Vinge’s Banking and Finance practice group has grown significantly and strengthened Vinge’s position as one of the leading banking and finance firms in the country”, says Mikael Ståhl, advokat and partner at Vinge.”
For more than ten years, Nestlé has fought to maintain its EU trademark registration of the three-dimensional mark, which consists of four trapezoidal chocolate bars aligned on a rectangular base, i.e. Nestlé’s “Kit Kat” product.