Disputes & Resolution in Sweden

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• The Patent and Market Court (Patent- och marknadsdomstolen) at the Stockholm District Court hears most intellectual property, competition and marketing law cases at first instance.

  IP litigation.AI-written, not source-checked

• Civil and commercial cases are heard by the general courts: district courts (tingsrätt), courts of appeal (hovrätt) and the Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen), while administrative courts hear disputes with public authorities.

  Civil and commercial litigation.AI-written, not source-checked

• The Swedish Arbitration Act 1999, amended in 2019, governs arbitration seated in Sweden.

  Arbitrations seated in Sweden.AI-written, not source-checked

• The SCC Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce administers commercial and investment treaty arbitrations.

  Institutional arbitration.AI-written, not source-checked

• Sweden is a party to the New York Convention, and applications to recognise and enforce foreign arbitral awards are made to the Svea Court of Appeal.

  Foreign arbitral awards.AI-written, not source-checked

• Judgments from other EU member states are enforced under the Brussels I Recast Regulation and judgments from Iceland, Norway and Switzerland under the Lugano Convention; the EU's accession to the Hague 2019 Judgments Convention also applies to Sweden, while judgments from other states are generally not enforced without a treaty basis.

  Foreign court judgments.AI-written, not source-checked

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