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Fenix Legal welcomes Peter Lindberg as our new lawyer!

Peter has a Master of Law from the University of Lund. He is an Authorized Swedish IP Attorney and an Authorized European Trademark and Design Attorney as well as an Authorised Patent Attorney (SE). Before joining us, he has been working since 1997 with Intellectual Property Law and areas related thereto at other law firms. He is well-experienced in legal, strategic, and commercial aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and areas related thereto, including copyright, design, patent and domain name issues, but his main focus and expertise is the top end prosecution and enforcement of trademark rights. Peter has extensive experience in providing legal counselling and recommendations when implementing specific IP-strategies in line with clients' commercialization needs. He has managed many large global IP-portfolios and got vast experience in IP-prosecution, enforcement and in pursuing infringement disputes, covering all sorts of IP-rights. Peter has represented clients in numerous opposition, cancellation, and revocation proceedings, as well as various settlement and coexistence agreements and commercial contracts, technology transfer agreements, cooperation agreements, all relating to and being necessary for the protection and commercialization of IP rights. He is vice president of the Swedish IP Attorneys Association, and member of the board of the Association of Swedish Patent Attorneys.

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Den mänskliga tankesmedjan för immateriell kvalitet

Vad händer när immaterialrätt, AI och politik möts i praktiken?

Petter Rindforth, Svenska Patentombudsföreningens (SPOF) ordförande, är gästskribent i Patent- och registreringsverkets (PRV) nyhetsbrev för IP-proffs:

Petter rapporterar från EUIPO:s möte i Alicante – och lyfter Sveriges unika roll i att skydda idéer, forma framtiden och vässa det mänskliga perspektivet i en AI-driven värld.

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Your brand of the future:
five tips from Sweden

COVID-19, military attacks, inflation
and high prices for fuel/electricity
has changed ordinary shopping behavior among consumers in Europe, including Sweden.

This, however, also means new opportunities for companies with their eyes open for the future. Petter Rindforth presents, in the World Intellectual Property Review, Issue 1 / 2024,  five tips from a Swedish point of view in order to keep your trademark valid and popular.

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ECTA

42nd Annual Conference 

MANY FACETS OF IP 

ECTA recently hold its 42^nd Annual Conference in Antwerp, Belgium, on the theme “Many Facets of IP”.

Maria Zamkova and Petter Rindforth participated from Fenix Legal on several presentations related to AI, copyright, design and trademark updates, as well as members of the Internet committee and the WIPO-Link Committee. Rindforth also participated as the Swedish representative of the Supervisory Board.

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Why and how Sweden keep it’s high innovative rating

Sweden is rated as No 2 in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) Global Innovation Index 2024 (GII).

In the World Intellectual Property Review, Issue 2 2025, Petter Rindforth explain why Sweden can keep this high rate, and also how this can be further improved.

FENIX LEGAL = AN  IP STAR

Fenix Legal has once again been ranked by Managing IP as a patent & trade mark attorney firm IP STAR 2025. Additionally, we are proud to announce that Maria Zamkova, Head of Patent, has been recognized by IP STARS as a Notable Practitioner, and Petter Rindforth, Head of Trademark, as a Trademark Star.

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STOCKHOLM vs. SWEDEN

Who is best in marketing?

According to the EUIPO’s Trade mark and Design guidelines, “geographical term” is “every existing name of a place, for example a country, region, city, lake or river”. The guidelines further state that it is in the public interest that signs that may serve to designate the geographical origin of goods or services remain available.

But how is it in practice with geographical terms as trademarks?

Petter Rindforth, Fenix Legal, describes in the Trademark Lawyer, Issue 2/2025, the competition between Sweden (the country name) and Stockholm (the name of the capital city), and how each of them gas acted in different way to protect and marketing their names.

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Fenix Legal offers legal solutions for the creative minds!

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Geographical indications:

the history of the Swedish horse and knife

Since 1992 a special type of protection for wines, spirit drinks and other agricultural products and foodstuffs such as cheese has been available in the European Union. It is called geographical indications (GI).

On May 24, 2023, EU ambassadors confirmed an agreement reached between the Council Presidency and the European Parliament representatives on the proposal for a Regulation on geographical indication protection also for craft and industrial products.

The new system aims to promote and protect cultural heritage and traditional know-how in Europe and is expected to cover as many as 800 jewellery, textile, lace, natural stone, cutlery, glass and porcelain products.

In the World IP Review, No 1 / 2023, Petter Rindforth of Fenix Legal  describes the new system and how two well-known Swedish examples  - the Dala Horse and the Mora Knife may or may register for this new protection.

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