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MAQS Law Firm has a series of seven offices across Scandinavia and the Baltics and serves clients especially well on trade mark, customs and parallel import matters. In 2010, the firm merged with Nordia, a patent contentious-focused firm with pharmaceutical expertise. Jeppe Brogaard Clausen, Peter Gustav Olson and Hanne Weywardt lead the MAQS team, which in 2010 advised Gucci and Reisenthel on actions against lookalike trade marks, and New Balance Athletic Shoe against a misuse of its trade mark. The latter case won the client a large award of damages. MAQS also added McGraw-Hill group to its list of clients. "I'm very happy of the high quality of its services and overall with its concrete and experienced advice" says one client, adding: "It is very good in terms of strategic thinking and always provide us with outstanding support." One client recommends Clausen for being "very much client and results-oriented" as well as for the high quality of his advice and leadership. A foreign client adds that Clausen's good German came in handy for a case.

MAQS Law Firm's IP team is headed by Christina Berggren and Monique Wadsted. It is especially strong in trade mark and copyright. Notable in the trade mark area is senior associate Tom Kronhöffer, member of the Swedish Anti-Counterfeiting Group. The firm in 2010 hired six new associates, from academic and public backgrounds.

The firm's highlight case in 2010 was in the famous Piratebay file sharing case in copyright. Wadsted, Christian Olofsson and Helena Holm continued in 2011 to represent MPAA, Warner Bros, Columbia Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, NBC, Paramount, Sony and Universal Studios against Piratebay. The firm's clients were awarded record damages by the by the District Court and the Court of Appeal and the firm is currently involved in follow up cases.

Elsewhere, Wadsted and Holm advised Unibet against ATG in a case of database infringement regarding fixtures on horse trotting, and Kronhöffer helped Apple defend its iPod and Pod marks through oppositions against Trackpod over the use of the Pod mark for electronic devices. In another case Berggren and Carin Wiberg represented Coca-Cola on numerous IP cases of infringement and trade mark clearance.

Other high-profile clients have included G-Star for copyright infringement and Guccio Gucci and the Swedish Red Cross on trade mark infringement matters. MAQS advises almost 50 well-known global brands.