Asta Lukošiūtė

European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)

Asta Lukošiūtė is the Head of the Corporate Legal Affairs Service at EUIPO. As part of her role, she is responsible for providing legal advice and handling litigation in civil service law matters. She is also the Chair of the Inter Agency Legal Network’s Working Group on civil service case law. This Working Group brings together legal experts from EU agencies who meet regularly to analyse case law and exchange views on matters relevant to EU agencies in the area of civil service law. They also provide legal support to the EUAN (EU Agencies Network).

Asta has almost 20 years of experience in EU civil service law, which began when she joined the Legal Service of the European Parliament in 2004. In 2010, she joined EUIPO, initially working on intellectual property matters and then on institutional, financial and civil service law matters. She has extensive experience in litigation before the European Court of Justice where she has represented institutions in close to 100 cases.

Asta graduated from the Faculty of Law at Vilnius University and holds a Master’s degree in European and International law from Riga Graduate School of Law.