Dan Eklöf specialises in intellectual property law and competition law.
Dan has an academic background and received his doctorate from Stockholm University in 2004. In the Intellectual Property field, the focus is on providing advice and dispute resolution in matters related to copyright law. In Competition law, his main task is dispute resolution and giving advice with respect to the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position.
Dan has represented collective management organisations in cases before the Swedish Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has also represented clients in several cases concerning standard-essential patents and FRAND issues.
Dan has special expertise in European Union law, in particular its implications for Intellectual Property and Competition law. In 2008, he was appointed Associate Professor (Docent) in European Law at Stockholm University.
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Practice areas
Intellectual Property
Competition Law -
Experience
2024- Specialist counsel, Sandart
2016- Associate, Sandart
2011-2016 Legal counsel, STIM
2008-2011 Associate, Sandart
2006 Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Law, University of Oxford
2005 Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School
1996-2008 Teacher and Researcher, Stockholm University
1992-1995 Law clerk, Stockholm District Court -
Education
2008 Associate Professor (Docent), Stockholm University
2004 Doctor of Laws (jur. dr), Stockholm University
1991 LL.M., Uppsala University -
Publications (Selected)
Books
Upphovsrätt i konkurrens - särskilt om artikel 82 och tvångslicensiering (Copyright in Competition - with special regard to Article 82 and compulsory licensing), Iustus, Uppsala 2005, ISBN 91-7678-605-6, ak. avh. (academic thesis)
Articles
- The Microsoft Case—at the Heart of the IP/Antitrust Intersection, in Article 82 EC Reflections on its Recent Evolution (ed. A. Ezrachi), Hart, Oxford 2009 ISBN 1841132500, 99-120
- 100 år med immaterialrätt – stabilitet, dynamik och utmaningar (100 Years of Intellectual Property Law Experience – Stability, Dynamics, and Challenges), Jubileumshäfte Juridisk Tidskrift 2007, 7-19
- Konkurrensbegreppet och konsumentvälfärden i artikel 81 efter moderniseringen av EU:s konkurrensrätt (Notions of Competition and Consumer Welfare in Post-Modernisation Article 81 EC), Juridisk Tidskrift 2006-07, 11-41
- Om modernt och rester av omodernt i den konkurrensrättsliga moderniseringen (Modern and not so Modern Features in the Modernisation of EC Competition Law), Europarättslig Tidskrift 2006, 259-285
- Immaterialrätterna och konkurrenslagen (Intellectual Property and Antitrust) in Bernitz, U./Edwardsson, E. (eds.), Konkurrens på reglerade marknader Stockholm (Competition in Regulated Markets) 1999, 81-127
- Konkurrensbegränsningsrätt och immaterialrättslig konventionsreglering (Antitrust and Intellectual Property Treaties), Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd 1998, 391-405
- Marknadsavgränsning i konkurrensrätten - rättstillämpningsproblem och felkällor (Market Definition in Antitrust), Europarättslig Tidskrift 1999, 256-284
- Mjukvara, marknader och missbruk (Software, Markets and Abuses), Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd 1999, 157-188
Miscellaneous
- Microsofts licensvägran i skottlinjen (Microsoft in the Line of Fire), T-201/04, Juridisk Tidskrift 2007-08, 681-692
- Upphovsrätt till ritningar (Copyright to Technical Drawings), NJA 2004 s. 149, Juridisk Tidskrift 2004-05, 145-150
- Comment on MD 1999:13, SK and FFF v. BONUS, Nordiskt Immateriellt rättsskydd 1999, 607-613
- Review of Anderman, S.D., EC Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights - the Regulation of Innovation, Europarättslig tidskrift 1999, 407-411
- Silhouette avgjort - regional konsumtion gäller (Silhouette and Regional Exhaustion), Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd 1998, 261-263