July 26-27, 1999
Montreal, Canada

Speaker Biography

Agne Lindberg Partner
Advokatfirman Delphi

1987: LL.M Uppsala University.

1987-89: Court work.

1989-1991, 1992- : Partner, Advokatfirman Delphi. Responsible for the firms IT Law group.

1991-1992: Advokatfirman Smitt, which was the Swedish member of the international group of IT Law Group Europe. Lindberg was responsible for the contacts with the group as well as for the Swedish contributions to the newsletter of IT Law Group Europe.

Professional Experience

• Member of the board of the Swedish Computer Law Association and the board of the International Federation of Computer Law Associations.
• Member of the Legal Observatory of the Swedish Governement's IT Commission
• Co-chair American Bar Association Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace, Subcommittee on International Transactions.
• Counsel to the Swedish government in the project "Electronic Commerce", aiming to implement EDI in the procurement of the Public Sector. Lead counsel for drafting of a Standard EDI agreement for Sweden as well as for the drafting of the frame agreement for the procurement of EDI systems, the largest IT procurement in Sweden.
• Member of the legal council of SITO - the Swedish IT-companies' trade organisation.
• Counsel to the Business Software Alliance, a trade organisation working against software piracy.
• National Expert in UN/ECE Working Party 4 and Nordic Council, working parties regarding EDI and the law.
• Counsel to Swepro, the Swedish Trade Procedural Organisation, head of the committee on the law of EDI.
• Author and co-author of several books regarding IT Law, such as "Computer Standard Contracts in Sweden", "Practical IT Law", "Electronic Commerce - legal and auditing aspects"

Key Expertise

• IT Law, including copyright, distribution and contract matters involving Information Technology as well as IT related litigation. Lindberg also has experience from legal work regarding edge technologies, such as Multimedia, Computer Interconnect Agreements and Electronic Commerce.
• Intellectual property law; Copyright, Trademarks, patterns etc.