Mette Vestergaard Huss

Mette Vestergaard Huss
Title: Senior Associate
Office: Copenhagen
Telephone: +45 33 44 39 22
Mobile: +45 30 10 39 22
Languages: Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish
Assistant: Inge Nielsen
Assistant's telephone: +45 33 44 39 07
Assistant's mobile: +45 30 10 39 07
Assistant's e-mail: inge.nielsen@hannessnellman.com

EXPERIENCE

Mette Vestergaard Huss specialises in intellectual property rights (IPR), marketing law and litigation. She has extensive experience providing legal support to clients with respect to trademark, design and domain name strategies and conflicts as well as advising on advertising and marketing campaigns. Mette has also been involved in a number of large due diligence projects, analysing risks related to IT and IPR.

Further, Mette advises a number of Danish and international clients in connection with IT and IPR related agreements and transactions.

In addition, Mette teaches two IPR classes at Copenhagen Business School as a part-time lecturer.

MEMBERSHIPS AND POSITIONS OF TRUST

  • Member of the Danish Bar Association
  • Danish Association for Protection of Industrial Rights (Foreningen Industriel Retsbeskyttlelse)

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

  • Senior Associate, Hannes Snellman, Copenhagen, 2011 -
  • Associate, Accura Advokatpartnerselskab, Copenhagen, 2007 - 2011
  • Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, lecturer in IPR - Legal Risk Management, 2010 -
  • Admitted to the bar, 2010
  • Master of Laws (cand.jur), University of Copenhagen, 2007
  • Stud.jur, Internationalt Patent-Bureau A/S (now Awapatent A/S), Copenhagen, 2005 - 2007
  • Mette is co-author of the article "Efterfinansiering af aktier gennem udbytteudlodning" ("Subse-quent financing of shares through distribution of dividends"), Justitia, no. 2, April 2008, Volume 31, Jurist- og Økonomiforbundets Forlag (DJØF Publishing)