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Creditinfo has completed a detailed analysis, which displays Icelandic companies that have achieved top marks in its strength and stability assessments. Of over 38.500 companies registered in the Icelandic Company Directory, only 2,2% pass the conditions set by Creditinfo in order to receive the award of being one of Iceland’s Strongest Companies.
Managing Intellectual Property ranking 2019:
Sigurjónsson & Thor has furthermore been ranked as a highly recommended by Managing Intellectual Property for 2019 stating that:
“Sigurjónsson & Thor is an IP boutique firm ranked highly for both contentious and prosecution work. Rivals describe the firm’s team as “true specialists in trade mark work”. Founders Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús H Magnússon have gained extensive experience in the Icelandic IP field.”
Managing Intellectual Property 2019
Sigurjónsson & Thor is highly recommended for trade mark protection and soft IP disputes. IP stars Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús Haukur Magnússon are key contacts in the firm. The firm acted in a number of Office proceedings including representing MasterCard in a trade mark opposition.
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2019
 Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Next generation lawyer
Magnús Hrafn Magnússon
Dealing with all aspects of IP law, including representation before the relevant courts and authorities, boutique IP firm Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. focuses on trade marks, copyrights and unfair competition. The team, which is ‘resourceful and efficient, with exceptional legal knowledge’, is also recognised for being ‘very good at finding points of focus’ and ‘putting efficient strategies together’. The ‘extremely talented’ Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús Hrafn Magnússon, who head the department together with the highly regarded Magnús Haukur Magnússon, represented Apple in the successful overturn of the refusal by the Patent Office to register the words ‘app store’ on the ground that the phrase does not meet the criteria of distinctiveness. Other high-profile clients include Novartis, Tesla and Mattel.
2018
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Next generation lawyer
Magnús Hrafn Magnússon
The boutique IP firm Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. has particular expertise in trade mark, copyright and unfair competition law. It represented the owners of the well-known restaurant chain Sushisamba in the landmark case for interpreting ‘bad faith’ under Icelandic trade mark law. Co-heads of the team Magnús Haukur Magnússon and Valborg Kjartansdóttir are highly regarded. Magnús Hrafn Magnússon is an ‘outstanding lawyer’. Clients include Booking.com, Starbucks and FIFA.
2017
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
‘Excellent’ boutique Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. is known for its IP litigation, having represented Church & Dwight Co in appealing against the rejection of the client’s registration of trade mark ‘SPINBRUSH’. Other clients include Facebook, Starbucks and Jaguar Land Rover. Magnús Hrafn Magnússon joined in March 2016 from Mandat Law Firm; Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús Haukur Magnússon are also recommended.
2016
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
Boutique IP firm Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. provides ‘a good service and has a very responsive team’. It represented Japanese company Uni-Charm in a trade mark matter which was overturned by the patent office. Other clients include Facebook and Starbucks. Magnús Haukur Magnússon – Valborg Kjartansdóttir are well regarded.
2015
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. focuses on IP and unfair competition. Recent highlights include acting in a landmark case that considered whether trade marks are automatically transferred with the transfer of a company. The team also successfully represented O2 Holdings Limited UK in a trade mark opposition case. Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús Haukur Magnússon are the practice co-heads.
2014
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
Boutique firm Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. is ‘excellent’ across all areas of IP, although it is particularly renowned for its trade mark and unfair competition work. Joint heads Magnús Haukur Magnússon and Valborg Kjartansdóttir are recommended.
2013
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon
Valborg Kjartansdóttir
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.’s ‘successful’ and ‘very competent’ practice focuses on patents, trade marks and designs. European patent attorneys Valborg Kjartansdóttir and Magnús Haukur Magnússon head the practice.
2012
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
2011
Magnús Haukur Magnússon of Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. is well placed to serve clients in IP litigation, where recent work includes successfully representing KFC International Holdings in a trade mark infringement case. Other clients have included cosmetics company Benefit.
Leading individuals TMT and IP
Magnús Haukur Magnússon Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf.
2010
Specialist patent firm Sigurjónsson & Thor ehf. offers “in- dept, thorough and very prompt advice”. The three “exceptional” partners at the firm work for many foreign clients, with 50% of instructions coming from the US. Magnús Magnússon specialises in trade mark cases and the “very knowledgeable and responsive” Valborg Kjartansdóttir is recommended.
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