Anders Valentin
Advokat, Partner
Right of Audience before the Supreme Court
Telephone +45 3333 1111
E-mail ava@buggevalentin.com
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Anders Valentin advises Danish and international clients in all areas of IP (patents, trademarks, copyright, design, marketing law) and Life Science & Healthcare with a primary focus on litigation and contracts. Anders has considerable experience as a litigator in preliminary injunction proceedings, preservation of evidence and main proceedings, including Supreme Court proceedings, as well as in the coordination of multi-jurisdictional litigation.
Anders served for many years as part-time lecturer in Intellectual Property at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen and co-founded the annual Nordic Intellectual Property Law Moot Court (NIR). Teaching the subject Design Law, he was for several years also part-time lecturer at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (The School of Design). He has written several articles on IP and Life Science & Health Care matters and provided input to international works of reference concerning IPR. Anders also contributes regularly for Denmark to the Kluwer Patent Blog.
‘ANDERS VALENTIN IS 'KEEN ON GIVING EXCELLENT SERVICE TO CLIENTS AND TRULY OBSERVANT TO THEIR NEEDS'.IAM Patent 1000, 2019
‘HE STANDS OUT FOR HIS ACCESSIBILITY, PUNCTUALITY, AND FOR THINKING ON HIS FEET.’
Chambers, 2019
‘HE IS AN EXCELLENT LAWYER WHO IS NEVER TOO BUSY TO RESPOND TO URGENT ENQUIRIES, NOR TO PROVIDE FOLLOW-UP ADVICE AFTER A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME.
Chambers, 2018
‘CERTAINLY UP THERE WITH THE BEST LITIGATORS IN DENMARK, ANDERS VALENTIN LEADS A POWERFUL IP TEAM. HE IS A CLEVER LAWYER WHOSE COURTROOM PERFORMANCE AND TRANSACTIONAL PROFICIENCY IS ESSENTIAL TO MULTINATIONALS INCLUDING SYNTHON AND CHEMO: FRIENDLY, EXPERIENCED AND CLIENT FOCUSED, HE UNDERSTANDS COMPLEX ISSUES AND RESPONDS WITH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS.’IAM
Patent 1000, 2018
“CLIENTS NOTE THAT HE IS “VERY COMMERCIALLY ORIENTED AND FOCUSED ON FINDING A SOLUTION FOR THE DISPUTE THAT IS COMMERCIALLY RELEVANT FOR THE CLIENT.” CLIENTS ALSO COMPLIMENT HIS “AVAILABILITY, SPEED AND BUSINESS UNDERSTANDING.
Chambers 2020
Anders is mentioned in the following international legal directories:
International Advisory Expert Awards 2019 - Intellectual Property
Legal 500 - Intellectual Property (Recommended Lawyer)
Chambers - Intellectual Property
ILO Client Choice Award 2015 - Litigation
Best Lawyers - Intellectual Property Law - Patent
Who's Who Legal - Patent Litigation and Life Sciences: Regulatory
IAM Patent 1000 - Litigation and Transactions
IP Stars - Trade mark star & Patent star
Career
Partner, Horten
Partner, Johan Schlüter Law Firm
Advokat, Accura Law Firm
Advokat, O. Bondo Svane (Plesner)
Right of audience before the Supreme Court
Right of audience before the High Court
Admitted to the Danish bar
Education
Master of Laws, the University of Copenhagen
BA History & Politics, Royal Holloway College, London
Positions of trust
Chairman of the Board, Million A/S (furniture design)
Member of the Board of Directors, Danish Life Science Law Association
Member of the Board of Directors, Ole Haslunds Artists’ Foundation
Member of the Board of Directors, House of Peace (HOPE)
Member of the Board of Directors, AIPPI (Denmark)
Memberships
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
EPLAW (European Patent Lawyers' Association)
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
International Trademark Association (INTA)
Languages
English
Swedish
EXAMPLES OF KEY CASES (LITIGATION)
Sandoz v Gilead (patent, Tenofovir)
Tal R. v Kanske ApS (copyright in painting)
Orkla Confectionary and Snacks v the Danish Trademark Appeals Board (trademark)
Hardi International v Albert Hedegaard (patent, agricultural machinery) (Supreme Court)
Sangenic International v (design, diaper containers)
Lely v DeLaval (patent, milking robots)
Lundbeck v. Teva (patent, Escitalopram)
Bodum v. La Cafetiere (Greenfield Group) (copyright, coffee pots) (Supreme Court)
Danish Architects Association et al v. The Municipality of Bornholm (copyright, architecture)
Glaxo Smith Kline v. Sandoz (trademark, passing-off, AirFluSal Forspiro)
Roche et al v Biogen et al (patent, Trastuzumab)
Pendelmatic v Ropox (design, copyright, unfair marketing practices)
Teva v. Sandoz (patent, asthma inhaler)
Vestergaard Frandsen v Ole Skovmand (patent, inventor’s rights) (Supreme Court)
Janssen Cilag v. Actavis (patent, Fentanyl)