Sara Bergström-Halbauer

I am a Doctoral Candidate in private law and my research focuses on issues of intellectual property rights and freedom of expression.

I am part of the Intellectual Property Law group in the research environment Lund University Centre for Business Law (Swedish abbr: ACLU). The purpose of ACLU is both to assemble and to strengthen the necessary and forceful research environments that exist at Lund University, and to make them both nationally and international competitive. An intense exchange of experiences and knowledge between the University and the public and private legal sector is essential for ACLU.

I teach at undergraduate and graduate level at the Faculty of Law at Lund University:

Semester 1 Introduction to Law, General Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law (30 credits) 

Moot Court. The introductory week of the law programme ends with a moot court that I host. Before the moot court, the students in different groups have had to write a summons and defence based on two client stories.

The SFS task. After an introductory lecture on the legislative process, students are given the task of making a short, written description of a new or amended law based on an individually assigned SFS number. After the submission, I give the student oral feedback on their text.

Semester 2 General Property Law, (30 credits)

I teach Intellectual Property Law and hold case law seminars aimed at allowing students to discuss and analyse a number of copyright and trademark cases from both Sweden and the European Court of Justice.

European Trademark, Design and Copyright Law, Master´s programme in European Business Law (15 credits)

During the course I give one lecture and two seminars. The lecture aims to introduce students to the relationship between intellectual property law and fundamental rights (Human Rights Perspective on Trademarks, Copyright and Designs). 

The first seminar integrates individual and collaborative elements, as well as practical elements. Students will individually "invent" a trade mark to examine its registrability and calculate what it would cost to register their trade mark. The collaborative aspect involves students discussing their individual trade marks and results with their peers before the seminar to prepare a group presentation. During the seminar, the student group presents their individual brands and research as well as the insights gained during the group discussion. We will build on these discussions during the seminar.

The second seminar is a case law seminar where students analyse and discuss the complexity of trade mark law, with a particular focus on the different uses of trade marks and the liability that comes with such use in digital environments.