Researchers
Professor, Chair of IP
Frantzeska Papadopoulou
Frantzeska Papadopoulou is the head of the IP group at Stockholm University. Her research focuses on intellectual property law, particularly within the pharmaceutical and biomedical sectors. She examines issues such as patent law, supplementary protection certificates (SPCs), and regulatory exclusivities (including orphan drugs and paediatric extensions), analysing how these legal mechanisms interact with public health, competition, and innovation policy. A further dimension of her research explores the intersection of IP law and cultural studies, focusing on themes such as women in film, and the rights of creators in non-traditional creative contexts.
Professor em.
Marianne Levin
Marianne Levin is Professor Emerita of Civil Law at Stockholm University and one of Sweden’s leading experts in intellectual property law. She has authored several seminal works, including Immaterialrätt (Intellectual Property Law), and has had a significant influence on the development of Swedish and Nordic IP law.
professor
Eleonora Rosati
Eleonora Rosati’s research interests and activities relate to intellectual property law, with a special focus on the EU and national dimensions thereof.
Areas of activity include: the process and result of EU copyright harmonization and the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU); rights enforcement over the internet and the role and liability of online intermediaries; fashion and intellectual property; questions of international jurisdiction and applicable law in online infringement cases; EU trade mark law; overlapping rights; EU copyright reform policy discourse.
Senior Lecturer (Docent)
Lydia Lundstedt
My research focuses on the interface between private international law and intellectual property law and other related areas, with comparative and international law perspectives. In my dissertation, Territoriality in Intellectual Property Law (2016), I examined and compared the interpretation and application of the principle of territoriality in infringement disputes in the EU and US legal systems. For my post-doctoral research, I analyzed the private international law aspects of cross-border trade secret disputes in a project funded by the Foundation for Jurisprudential Research. The findings were published by Edward Elgar Publishing as part of the Monographs in Private International Law series. Presently, I am developing a project on the Cross-border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa.
Lecturer (Bitr. lektor)
Branka Marusic
Branka’s research trajectory focuses on the interface between EU copyright law, digital transformation, and the role of autonomous legal concepts in legal harmonisation – an area of pressing legal and societal concern. At the moment she is finalising a project on harmonisation of copyright through concepts – an empirical study on how the CJEU uses concepts to infuse them with EU law meaning and minimise discrepancies between national laws of EU Member States.
Doctorate candidate
Spyridon Sipetas
Spyros Sipetas is a PhD candidate in Private Law (Civilrätt) specialising in Intellectual Property Law (Immaterialrätt). His research focuses on the role of Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the fashion industry, in light of sustainability goals.
Jur.Dr.
Anna Horn
Anna Horn defended her Doctorate thesis in November 2024 with a title: Harmonising the Acts of Patent Infringement in Europe. Her thesis evaluates the mechanisms that have contributed to patent law harmonisation and fragmentation relating to the infringing acts and the applicable limitations. Further, it reveals the level of national harmonisation in Sweden, Germany, England and Wales. The study clarifies the extent of influence the EU legal order has had on national patent law and analyses the UPC system’s complex relationship with the EU. It further analyses the degree of harmonisation expected to be achieved by the UPC system. The methods of the study include analyses of EU law and an analytical comparison of the domestic law in the selected jurisdictions. The issue of legal harmonisation is studied alongside the judicial dialogue between national courts and the concept of regulatory competition.
Doctorate Candidate
Henrik Bengtsson
Doctorate candidate
Måns Svennem Lundberg
Måns’ research centers on copyright law in the creative industries, with a particular focus on how traditional instruments and concepts of private law – such as contracts and property – can act both as enablers and obstacles to sustainable working conditions for creators. Måns is currently finalizing his dissertation on enforcement challenges in music creatives’ pursuit of fair remuneration as per articles 18–23 of the DSM directive.
Doctoral Candidate
Ingrīda Kariņa-Bērziņa, JD
My doctoral research focuses on bad faith as a basis for invalidating a European Union Trade Mark, analyzing the origins and substance of the concept of bad faith in the law and its role within the trademark registration system in the EU, contrasting it with analogous mechanisms in the United States and other areas of intellectual property law.
