Dagný Fjóla Jóhannsdóttir Appointed as Head of IP

Dagný Fjóla Jóhannsdóttir has been appointed as the Head of the new Intellectual Property and Administration Department at the Icelandic Intellectual Property Office. In this role, she will be responsible for overseeing the management and daily operations of the department, which handles the substantive processing of applications and other matters related to the registration of trademarks, patents, and designs.

Dagný has been working as a legal advisor at the Icelandic Intellectual Property Office since 2017. From 2020 to 2022, she was seconded to the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in Alicante, Spain. Before that, she worked at Tego Intellectual Property Consulting.

Dagný graduated with a master’s degree in law from Reykjavik University in 2014 and gained her litigation rights before the district courts in 2017. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Innovation and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh, alongside her work at the Icelandic Intellectual Property Office.