Sture Rygaard
Sture is a partner in Plesner's IP team. He represents clients in different IP matters, including trademarks, patents, designs, copyrights, and other intellectual property rights as well as IP contracts, transactions, strategy, and trademark litigation.
Sture holds a Master’s degree in law from the University of Copenhagen and an LLM from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is admitted to the Supreme Court of Denmark and has been a member of the board of the European Patent Lawyer's Association (EPLAW) from 2017 to 2023 (maximum term), and he was president from 2022 to 2023. He is also Vice President of the Danish AIPPI Group.
Sture is co-author of a comprehensive book on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and a number of other IP publications, and he regularly lectures at seminars and conferences.
Plesner has Denmark's strongest IP team and has been a powerhouse in IP and life science law for decades. The whole IP team is proud to have been rated as leading in the IP field in all ratings since ratings began. We work as a team, share knowledge, and assist each other on cases, which is the only way we can remain at the forefront of IP law.
We strive to be among the best IP firms in Europe.
"He is extremely good at strategically conducting litigation, and always gets the best results" (2024)
"Sture is very straightforward and gives clear, commercial advice" (2024)
"Sture Rygaard is very experienced and knowledgeable in technical aspects" (2023)
"He is very good in terms of client service, quality of work and commercial awareness" (2023)
Sture Rygaard handles contentious patent matters for clients within the pharmaceutical sector. He is also noted for his skill in trade mark litigation. An interviewee comments: "He has a lot of experience, and he is enthusiastic about his cases" (2022)
"Sture Rygaard and Mikkel Vittrup are top notch. Clients are always full of praise for them and rightly so. They are fearless and develop creative solutions. Just the sheer experience and number of cases they have handled means I certainly wouldn’t want to see them on the other side of the court room" (2023)
"Sture Rygaard is a very clever and innovative attorney, who is excellent in seeing and developing, and evaluating new and sometimes game-changing aspects of a case" (2022)
Sture Rygaard is praised for his "hands-on approach. He is meticulous and diligent in his work and delivers thorough, expert opinions" (2024)
Rygaard garners effusive praise from clients for being "a real blue-sky thinker and aggressive litigator with a commercial edge, he can handle the most complex cases and instils real confidence in his clients. He has an impressive reputation and is without question one of the best trademark lawyers in Denmark" (2023)
Sture Rygaard is an "eminent litigator" (2022)
