Elias Olsson is a Swedish lawyer currently working as an intern at Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels. Elias graduated with a Master of Laws from Stockholm University in 2021 and has spent an exchange semester at Aix-Marseille University. Prior to joining VBB, Elias interned at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and worked as an IP & Tech lawyer at the Nordic law firm Roschier Attorneys for two years.
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On 27 April 2023, the European Commission released its long-awaited draft Regulation on a new framework for standard-essential patents (“SEPs”). The draft Regulation aims at improving the efficiency and predictability in the SEP licensing market, particularly for small and mediumsized enterprises (...)
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On 16 March 2023, Justice Mellor J. of the England and Wales High Court issued a landmark judgment in case HP-2019-000032 between InterDigital and Lenovo, the second ever UK ruling to define global fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (“FRAND”) royalty rates. The case was brought before a UK (...)
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In its judgment of 16 February 2023, the Norwegian Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) affirmed the annulment of a decision by the Norwegian competition authority (“NCA”) which had prohibited Schibsted ASA (“Schibsted”) from acquiring a majority stake in the used car sales portal Nettbil AS (...)
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On 16 February 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) handed down a preliminary ruling in Case C-312/21 (Tráficos Manuel Ferrer) which clarified the circumstances under which the exercise of the right to full compensation is rendered ‘practically impossible or excessively (...)
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