Pandora Opened the Box—What Actually Followed? A Twenty-One-Year Reckoning

The topic I chose for my doctoral thesis did not fall within what would traditionally be considered a mainstream intellectual property subject. More precisely, it was not a topic that, at the time, would readily have come to the mind of a “traditional” IP scholar, particularly within the Nordic academic context.1 I cannot recall with certainty what initially drew me to the subject, but in retrospect it seems likely that I first encountered it during my studies in the European Intellectual Property Law master’s programme.