Ane Strand Nilssen

Ane works preliminary with intellectual property rights and related areas with major emphasis on trademark law, domain names and the Law relating to Artists and Photographers. She also assists with legal problems and conflicts. She started working for Zacco in 2011.

From September 2012 to December 2012, Ane conducted an internship in the full-service, international law firm Beijing YingKe in China.

Ane graduated with her Law Degree from the University of Oslo in 2011, with copyright law as her elective subject and copyright law and privacy rights as her area of specialization. She wrote her master’s thesis on “a depictured person’s right to own photography, in relation to the media and new media, with focus on web publishing.” For this thesis she received the highest grade.

She is featured as a Recommended Individual in the WTR 1000 by the World Trademark Review. In 2024, she also has been named a Rising Star by Managing IP for the first time.