Tómas Þorvaldsson

Attorney at Law
tomas@logmenn.com

Icelandic version of the CV

Practice Areas:

• Intellectual property Law (copyright, patents, trademarks, design rights)
  
• Licensing
  
• Contract law
  
• Corporate law
  
• Entertainment law
  
• Pharmaceuticals
  
• Litigation
  
  Education and Bar admission:
  
• University of Iceland, Faculty of Law. 1981. Cand. Jur.
  
• Admitted to the Bar 1983.
  
  Resumé:
  
• Associate at the Law firm, Lögmenn Sudurlandsbraut 4, 1982 -1987.
  
• Law Offices of Tómas Thorvaldsson January 1987 - August 1987
  
• Partner at the Law firm, Lögmenn vid Austurvöll since 1987.
  
  Other positions/member of the following boards and committees:
  
• Standing committee for the revision of Icelandic Copyright law, appointed by the minister of Education and Culture, since 1994.
  
• Boardmember of the Icelandic Copyright Society since 2003.
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Icelandic Blank Tape Levy Organisation, since 1994.
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Icelandic Film Fund, appointed by the minister of Education and Culture 1997 - 2000.
  
• Co-operation Committee of the Nordic Film Producers Association, (Chairman) 1993 - 1995.
  
• Legal Committee of the International Federation of Film Producers (FIAPF) 1994 - 1998.
  
• General Manager and legal counsel for The Icelandic Film Producers Association, 1987 - 2001. Legal counsel since 2001.
  
• Director of Contracts and General Counsel for Air Atlanta Icelandic, during its start up years, 1988 - 1992.
  
• Chairman of Lyfjaþróun Biopharmaceuticals since 2001.
  
• Member of several other boards and committees.
  
• Member of the Icelandic Lawyer Association and the Icelandic Bar Association.
  
• Member of AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
  
• Member of LESI (The Licensing Executives Society International)
  
• Lectures on copyright at the University of Iceland. Lectures on copyright and on Intellectual Property Rights at the University of Reykjavik as well as for a number of societies.
  
  Authorship:
  
• I have published articles on Intellectual Property Rights in Icelandic Trade magazines, e.g. "Copyright in Films" in the Icelandic Film Magazine (Land og synir).
  
• I work with an extensive network of colleagues and Law Firms abroad, such as Addleshaw Goddard in London, Frankfurt, Garbus, Selz, Klein and Kurnitz in New York, Lindahls in Sweden and quite a few other Law firms in the US and Europe.
  
  Languages:
  
• English
  
• Danish.