Celine Varmann Jørgensen

Primary expertise

Celine has several years of experience within IP law, unfair competition and marketing law. Her daily tasks includes management of large domestic and international trademark and design portfolios, with development and implementation of IPR strategies, clearance searches and infringement opinions, filing and prosecution, as well as oppositions and disputes regarding intellectual property rights, both nationally and internationally. Celine also holds strong experience in domain name disputes, counterfeit and customs matters, unfair competition, copyright law and contract law. She represents national and international clients before the Norwegian Industrial Property Office, the IP Appeal Board, EUIPO, NKU (Council dealing with unfair marketing practices), Norid (Registry for Norwegian domain names), as well as district courts and courts of appeal.

Her clients span from Norwegian start-ups to large international corporations from all industrial sectors, including media, entertainment, consumer products, fashion industry, automotive, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, IT, and manufacturing fields, etc.

Celine has authored a number of articles in international IPR magazines, including Norway’s chapter in the World Trademark Review’s “Designs: A Global Guide”. Celine is also responsible for the Norwegian contribution to “INTA Country Guides” and INTA’s “International Opposition Guide: Comparative Practice and Procedures”. In 2004, she published the article “Linking, framing and search engines in a trademark law perspective” in Tidskrift for Forretningsjuss.
“Dependable Celine Varmann Jørgensen strengthens the bench in prosecution and handles numerous large-scale portfolios without ever dropping the ball.”
Client quote, WTR1000

Background

Celine graduated with a law degree from the University of Oslo in 2000, with IP specialization from the University of Copenhagen. In 2004, she added an LLM in Information Technology and Communications Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Celine has a worked as an attorney at law at the law firm Ro, Sommernes & Co, and has experience from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office where she worked as legal adviser. She was admitted to the Norwegian Bar in 2006.

Celine joined Bryn Aarflot in 2005 and was made partner in the firm in 2010.

Distinctions

– Ranked as “Top 250 Women in IP for 2020/21” by Managing IP
– Elected IP Star by Managing IP 2020-2024
– Named in the WTR 1000, 2019, 2020-2024
– Honored as “Thought Leader” in Who’s Who Legal (Trademarks) 2024
– Recommended in Who’s Who Legal (Trademarks) 2015-2023
– Named in Experts Guides – Women in Business Law 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
– Named in Marketplace Analysis by Who’s Who Legal as “extremely good” at portfolio management, 2014
– Named in Expert Guides – The Guide to the World’s Leading Trademark Practitioners 2014, 2020
– Awarded the Olswang Price for best LLM in Information Technology and Communications Law at LSE 2003/04, 2004

Memberships

ECTA, INTA, Marques, FICPI/FONIP, NIR/AIPPI, NACG, Norwegian Bar Association