Amund Brede Svendsen

Practice Areas

Amund Brede Svendsen’s areas of concentration are patents, trademarks, unfair competition law and trade secrets (contentious and non-contentious). Admitted to the Supreme Court. Amund has extensive litigation experience in the following areas: patents (especially pharmaceuticals, biosimilars and oil and gas services industry) and IP-related commercial litigation. He advises on patents and trademarks validity and infringement issues and on issues relating to employee inventors’ rights, trade secrets, unfair competition and marketing law and pharmaceuticals regulatory law and represents clients in disputes relating to these areas. He drafts and negotiates technology transfer, R&D and consortium agreements. Amund has experience as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitration cases.

Career

Of Counsel, Gjessing 2026-

Partner, Gjessing 2019 - 2024

Partner Grette 1986 - 2019

Associate Smith, Grette, Eide, Midelfart and Vik 1981-1986

Research assistant, University of Bergen 1980-1981

Admitted to the Supreme Court (2009)

Appointments: Panelist in the Board of appeal for Industrial Property Rights 2016 -

Professional Memberships

The Norwegian Bar Association;

The Norwegian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (Chair, 2004 - 2020);

AIPPI (President of the Norwegian Group, 2004 - 2020);

European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)

Publications

The Norway Chapter in Patent Claim Interpretation – Global Edition, Edward Manzo Editor-in-Chief, Thomson West 2009-17

Chambers Global Guides - Trade Secrets 2020: Law and Practice in Norway (with Julius Berg Kaasin)

Languages Spoken

English, French, Italian, German, the Scandinavian languages