Knut Sverre Skurdal Andresen

Practice Areas

Life Sciences

Data Protection & Privacy

Digital Innovation & TMT

Dispute Resolution, Litigation & Arbitration

Intellectual Property

Media & Entertainment

Mining & Minerals

Oil & Gas

Trade & Industry

Career

Knut Sverre works with litigation in the ordinary courts and dispute resolution in international and national arbitration. He specialises in IP dispute resolution and works particularly with patent disputes concerning pharmaceutical, fishing, transportation and offshore technology, as well as trademark, copyright, unfair competition and marketing law disputes, and IT disputes. Knut Sverre advises clients in cutting-edge technology development projects and technology/IP M&A and is considered a preferred strategic advisor in commercial IP and licensing matters. He has recently been involved in some of the most significant patent disputes before Norwegian courts. He also has broad experience in disputes concerning various commercial law matters.

Knut Sverre regularly appears as a seminar speaker and lecturer on various IP and civil procedural issues. He is the author of The Legal 500 Intellectual Property Comparative Legal Guide Norway and Chambers Patent Litigation Practice for Norway and co-authored the online annotated Norwegian Civil Procedure Act.

Publications

2020 - Chambers Global Practice Guide: Patent Litigation Norway

2020 - The Legal 500 Intellectual Property Comparative Legal Guide Norway

2019 - Gyldendal Rettsdata, Commentary to the Norwegian Civil Procedure Act chapters 10, 20, 29, 30 and 31

2009 - Obiter dicta as a source of law - a question of the role of the Courts of Justice. Changes in the Norwegian Supreme Court's argumentation in the time of internationalisation? Centre for European Law

2009 - EuroRett nr. 1 2008 – nr. 1. 2009, Centre for European Law/Lovdata