Profile
Hedvig is a Senior Legal Advisor at Onsagers. She has broad experience with intellectual property law, and specialist expertise with design- and trademark law. She assists clients in a wide range of intellectual property related matters, including strategic advice, establishment of rights, enforcement, awareness raising and conflict resolution.
Hedvig is particularly passionate about combatting IPR-infringements and has worked with piracy- and counterfeit issues both nationally and internationally for several years. Through this work, she has been project manager for several larger projects in the fight against IPR-infringements and collaborated with a number of stakeholders, authorities and organizations at a national- and international level. Hedvig has also been involved in bill drafting in the fields of trademark- and design law, and has represented Norway in international forums such as WIPO and EUIPO. She has a broad national- and international network amongst stakeholders in the IP- world.
Hedvig is an experienced speaker, and spokesperson in the media, on IP matters and especially about Intellectual property infringements. She is engaged in IP-field and has, among other, been a supervisor for master’s students in the area of design, written intellectual property law articles, been deputy member of the board for the Chairman of the Composers’ Association and had editorial responsibility for the website buyreal.no in the period between 2014 and 2022.
Hedvig Bengston has worked in Onsagers since August 2022.
Career History
2022 – d.d.: Senior Legal Advisor, Onsagers AS
2011 – 2022: Senior Legal Advisor, Legal and International Affairs, Norwegian Industrial property Office (NIPO)
2005 – 2011: Senior Legal Advisor, Trademark Department, Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO)
2003 – 2005: Legal Advisor, Design Department, Norwegian Industrial Property Office
2001: Trainee, Law firm Lindh Stabell Horten
Education
2000: Cand. Jur (Master of Law), University of Oslo.
Copyright Law
Languages
Norwegian, English