Marianne Levin is Professor emerita, Department of Law, Stockholm University. Since 1995, she has served as the Chair of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. Professor Levin was the head of the Press and PR department of the EPO from 1986-1988, and was one of the four people involved in the 1990 draft for an EU Design protection. She served as the Director of the Institute of Intellectual Property and Market Law, and founded the Master's Program in European Intellectual Property Law at Stockholm University. She holds an honorary doctorate from the Swedish School of Economics, Helsinki.