Lill Grimstad
Partner, Attorney at Law
Cand Jur/LLM
Lill Grimstad has more than 28 years’ experience in intellectual property law (patent, trademark, design and copyright law) and marketing law, including advertising, passing off and unfair competition.
Her practice focuses on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious advice, including the preparation of strategies to protect IP rights, such as know-how and trade secrets, and the counselling and prosecution of IP rights before the Norwegian and European IPOs.
Lill’s expertise includes the protection and enforcement of IP portfolios, clearance searches, opposition and cancellation proceedings, infringement, domain name and company name disputes.
She is also a strategic adviser on commercial IP and licensing matters and advises on rewards for employee inventions under the Employee Inventions Act.
Contact information
PHONE
+47 2100 9000
VISITING ADDRESS
Drammensveien 151
0277 Oslo, Norway
Practices
- Agreements
- Copyright
- IP Strategy
- Licensing
- Litigation
- Marketing law
- Oppositions
- Trade secrets
- Trademarks
Industries
- Automotive
- Clothing
- Cosmetics and hygiene
- Energy
- Food & beverage
- Gas
- Life sciences
- Manufacturing & process technology
- Marketing
- Media & entertainment
- Oil & power
- Pharma
Languages
- Danish
- English
- Norwegian
- Swedish
Prior Experience
- Partner/Attorney-at-Law, DLA Piper Norway, 2022
- Director/Chair, The Norwegian Boards of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights, 2013
- CEO/Partner/Attorney-at-Law, Bryn Aarflot, 2012
- Head Legal/Partner/Attorney-at-Law, Bryn Aarflot, 2007
- Partner/Attorney-at-Law, Advokathuset Follo, 2005
- Partner/Attorney-at-Law, Advokatfirmaet Robertsen, 2003
- Attorney-at-Law/Associate – Deloitte Legal, 2001
- Senior Legal Adviser, Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), 1998
- Senior Advisor, University of Oslo Faculty of Law, 1997
Education
- Master of Laws – LLM, University of Oslo, 1997
- Management Competence at Board Level (Executive), BI Norwegian Business School, 2006
- Master Innovation and Leadership, University of South-Eastern Norway, 2018
Authorisations
- European Trademark and Design Attorney
- European Patent Attorney
- Admitted to the Norwegian Bar in 2002
Memberships
- Norwegian Bar Association
- INTA
- NIR
- FONIP (Norwegian IP Attorneys Association)
- FICPI
- AIPPI