Kenneth Kvistgaard-Aaholm

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Partner

FinTech

IP & Digital Business

Kenneth Kvistgaard-Aaholm specialises in IP law and assists Danish and foreign companies within several IP law disciplines. He focuses on legal proceedings, transactions and advises on IP strategies.

Kenneth heads up our team that handles and manages our clients’ portfolios of trademarks and design rights all over the world. He has assisted a number of our clients in enforcing their trademarks in cases before the Danish courts.

The majority of Kenneth’s cases are in the technical domain, covering patents, utility models and cases where technical understanding is relevant or an advantage, for instance infringement of IP rights, violation of the Danish Marketing Practices Act via the Internet or abuse of trade secrets. Kenneth’s cases in the technical domain have included a number of patent and utility model infringement cases as well as transactions involving these rights – both isolated IP assignments or licence agreements, but also assignment and licensing in connection with M&A.

Kenneth works with copyrights, franchises and particularly cases in the interface between IP law and competition law. This type of case is becoming increasingly common and matches Kenneth’s other work very well, as he spent his first years with our firm in our EU & Competition practice group and Kenneth’s LL.M. from King’s College London focused on competition law subjects.

Since 2007, Kenneth has been a lecturer at Aarhus University in the subject Market Law, which is made up of competition law, marketing law and IP law. He also teaches IP law and competition law interfacing at DIFI’s courses (Danish Institute for IP rights training). Kenneth is a member of FIR, AIPPI, EPLAW, LES and INTA.

Significant cases
Kenneth has assisted clients with legal proceedings in Denmark as well as abroad. He has coordinated a number of foreign legal proceedings where Danish clients have either been sued or have sued others in one or more countries. Particularly, Kenneth has assisted in a large number of cases in the USA and Germany.

Kenneth has also been responsible for the IP aspects of a number of major transactions, including the establishment of a large Danish joint venture requiring the assignment of IP rights to the joint venture and the joint venture licensing in and out IP rights.