Plougmann Vingtoft

Plougmann Vingtoft is an award-winning IP consulting firm that specialises in handling, protecting, and commercialising IPR as well as the strategic use hereof.

Plougmann Vingtoft has a large team of dedicated employees working out of the headquarters in Hellerup (Copenhagen) and three additional offices in respectively Aarhus, Oslo and Munich.

Further, the firm has a comprehensive network of business partners and agents around the globe, which enables the firm to provide services for clients in any part of the world, both directly and through international agents.

In addition, Plougmann Vingtoft has a strong focus on increasing international outreach, especially in the USA and Asia.

Full-service IP Consulting:

Plougmann Vingtoft is a full-service consultancy. The firm employs some of the best patent-, trademark and design attorneys, including 12 examined European Patent Attorneys and 5 European Trademark and Design Attorneys, as well as a well-educated team of paralegals to support attorneys and handle all IP administration, which ensures a cost-efficient, well-operated and highly professional service to all clients.

In addition, Plougmann Vingtoft has 7 UPC representatives that are qualified to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and 1 part-time technically qualified judge in the UPC.

Besides well-known IP services, Plougmann Vingtoft firm has an in-house commercialisation and tech-transfer team, which is marketed under a separate brand “tto” (www.tto.eu). tto specialises in generating value from new technologies in combination with IPR. The tto experts assist clients facing challenges in a transition phase from early-stage development to commercialisation or exit.

Selected services:

Plougmann Vingtoft’s IP attorneys conduct searches and analyses, prepare IP strategies and evaluations in addition to drafting and prosecuting IP applications.

Also, the company has extensive experience in representing various firms in complex opposition and litigation cases before the European Patent Office (EPO) and national courts in Denmark and Norway.

Recognition & awards:

For 14 consecutive years, the company has been placed in Managing IP’s Tier 1.

In 2023, Plougmann Vingtoft received the “Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year – Denmark” award for the second time at the Global IP Awards.

IAM Patent 1000 describes Plougmann Vingtoft as follows: “With broad and extensive technical capabilities, Plougmann Vingtoft is one of the best IP firms in Denmark. Working side by side with the client, its practitioners provide regular reports and overviews, paired with training focused on the importance of IP rights and strategies.”

While WTR 1000 writes the following: “Full-service IP consultancy Plougmann Vingtoft has a roster of loyal clients from heavy-hitting brand owners to smaller entities and entrepreneurs, one small company notes: “the experts at Plougmann Vingtoft kept us updated every step of the way and made what would have been a daunting, if not impossible, task for us to handle ourselves an easy process.”

Key IP Areas:

Designs, Intellectual property (prosecution), Patent, Patent prosecution, Trade mark, Copyright & related rights, IP transactions, Life sciences IP, Trade mark prosecution

Key Sector Expertise:

Biotechnology, Chemical, Electronics, Food & beverage, ICT & software, Industrials, Life sciences, Manufacturing, Mechanical, Medical device, Nanotechnology, Optics & photonics, Pharmaceutical, Renewable energy, Robotics, Telecommunication, Universities & research, Technology hardware

Plougmann Vingtoft’s offices run on green energy and commits to decreasing waste (i.e. food, plastics).

Plougmann Vingtoft also has the pro bono initiative IP Matters:

Every year through to 2030, Plougmann Vingtoft will donate expert IP-consulting worth of DKK 50,000 to the Danish start-up that is considered able to influence one or several of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The goal is that Plougmann Vingtoft by 2030 has enabled at least 12 start-up firms to make a difference for a sustainable global development through IP Matters. For more information please see: https://www.pv.eu/about/ip-matters/.

In 2021, Plougmann Vingtoft joined the Confederation of Danish Industry’s Diversity Pledge (formerly DI’s Gender Diversity Pledge), which is a joint strategy for increasing diversity in Danish private sector companies. As an internationally oriented company, employee diversity is crucial to Plougmann Vingtoft and therefore is the team of experts set independently of age/seniority, ethnicity, nationality, and gender. There are various different languages represented, and the staff holds many nationalities and different cultural backgrounds, which enables Plougmann Vingtoft to understand and communicate even better with the different stakeholders and communities all over the world.