Mr. Claes Granmar (Sweden). Visiting Doctoral Researcher.

Mr. Claes Granmar received his Master of Laws from Stockholm University, Sweden, in combination with the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1996. He also holds a Master of EC Law from Stockholm University, having graduated as a member of the winning team in the yearly Case-Study Competition 1997. In addition, Mr. Granmar holds an M.B.A. in Marketing Management from the Graduate School for Marketing and Communication at Stockholm University, where he won a prize for best result in the test on decoding abstract relations between objects. Since 2003 he is an often appointed lecturer in trademark law at the undergraduate Law Program and at the Master Program in Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. He is currently writing his Doctoral dissertation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Mr. Granmar is the author of a Swedish handbook on trademarks and domain names “Varumärkesskydd–en handbook om varumärken och domännamn”. He has recently published the article “Some Reflections upon Branding and Trademarks” in the Nordic legal magazine Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd (NIR). Before taking up his doctoral research, Mr. Granmar worked as an in-house lawyer at Morningstar Europe AB, as a trademark and domain name consultant at Domain Network AB and as a deputy lawyer at Stockholm County Administrative Board.

Mr. Granmar’s dissertation; “The social effects of an expanding trademark protection in the post-consumer society” treats the impact a widened scope of trademark protection and trademark centred competition has on the function of markets, on freedom of expression and on cultures in a U.S. law and EC law context. At NYU School of law he reconciles legal aspects and recent findings in sociology.His research interest includes i.e. privatization of symbols versus public access to symbols, the spread of global sameness versus cultural diversity, and trademark protection versus freedom of expression.   

Affiliated Fellows for the Academic Year 2006-2007

Affiliated Faculty for the Academic Year 2006-2007

Emile Noel Fellows for the Academic Year 2006-2007