Denmark

Firm overview

Budde Schou is one of Scandinavia’s oldest and most respected firms of IP attorneys dating back to 1901. Budde Schou has comprehensive expertise within all aspects of intellectual property rights.

The dedicated Patent Attorneys at Budde Schou offer advice and assistance to national as well as international corporate clients and smaller companies. They hold invaluable experience in respect to technical and legal issues pertaining to their field.

Budde Schou’s core business is drafting and prosecuting IP applications (patents, trademarks, designs and utility models) and providing consultancy services in respect to all IP related activities ranging from IP analyses to the establishment and enforcement of rights, including assistance in the development of an overall strategy as a business tool for commercial success.

Firm overview

Abion: Your Global IP Guardian

Abion is a leading force in the intellectual property (IP) industry. We are an innovative, platform-based provider leveraging 25 years of experience in the digital landscape with a strong foundation as an ICANN-accredited registrar and ISO27001 certified supplier.

Abion's edge lies in combining top-ranked industry experts with advanced technology. This fusion delivers an unparalleled service across the entire intellectual property lifecycle, including:

• Trademark and design prosecution
• IP and legal consultancy
• Enforcement and litigation
• Online brand protection and enforcement
• Strategic domain name consulting
• Web security

Streamlined efficiency at your fingertips

Our cloud-based brand management platform, Abion Core, combines cutting-edge technology with intuitive user experience to streamline managing and protecting your brand all in the one place. It’s a centralised solution that puts you in control of your brand, no middlemen and no service interruptions.

Globally positioned and locally empowered

Our 17 offices covering, EU/non-EU European territories, UAE, Asia and Australasia, combined with a global network of partners, enable us to provide expert advice and comprehensive IP solutions to service virtually any jurisdiction.

Firm overview

Inspicos is a top tier patent prosecution firm based in Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark.

The firm represents a large number of reputable international corporations in examination, opposition and appeal proceedings before the EPO and the Danish Patent Office, and provides support in relation to domestic and multinational litigation proceedings. In a recent international survey, Inspicos has been portrayed as a “vibrant, close-knit team, consistently producing outstanding results”. The firm is fully prepared for the future UPC regime, with most of its attorneys having obtained a European diploma in patent litigation. Inspicos’ ability to serve clients’ needs is reflected by the fact that a remarkably high proportion of the firm’s professionals have held positions as IPR Directors in the pharma industry.
 
Two partners of the firm are members of a standing panel of expert judges of the Copenhagen Maritime and Commercial High Court, which is the central first instance for IP disputes in Denmark. Several of the firm’s associates and partners lecture at leading IP institutions – for example, at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) and the Danish Institute for IP Rights Training – and as part of university courses.

In recruiting its professionals, the firm has targeted some of the most renowned European patent attorneys in the region, as well as highly qualified associates with the clear potential to pass the examination. Clients consistently praise Inspicos for its ability to serve clients in an efficient and highly professional manner.

Inspicos is wholly owned and managed by the partners of the firm. In recent years the firm has achieved remarkable results within a variety of technical fields, from life sciences to physics, including immunology, antibody technology, food ingredient technology, organic and inorganic chemistry, pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, medical devices, wind power, wireless communication, software and mechanics.

Network memberships: epi, FICPI, AIPPI

Firm overview

European Patent Attorneys highly experienced in European and Danish patent law and renowned for post-grant contentious matters, COPA Copenhagen Patents is one of the country’s leading IP firms and has been awarded several international awards for its outstanding quality and service to clients.

Who we are

We are qualified European Patent Attorneys with many years of experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications with a global perspective to ease prosecution in the most popular international markets.

We are proud of combining individual skills into a team effort and houses a unit of some of the most esteemed individual patent attorneys in Denmark. Our patent attorneys are backed by a qualified and certified very experienced patent administrator team working closely with both attorneys and clients to ensure the end goal of providing tailored and qualified service. We cover most areas of technology, but our main focus areas are biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, mechanics, and electronics.

The patent attorney team comprises European Patent Attorneys Mikkel Bender, Peter Kim Jensen, Steven Richard Kitchen, Jacob Meyland, Axel Heimann, Sylvia Yang, Rune Risgaard, Christian Espersen, Natalia Zakharova as well as patent attorney Sune Højfeldt.

What we do best

COPA Copenhagen Patents consistently aims at providing advice where quality is above all. We consider our combination of expertise and years of experience, our genuine interest in entrepreneurship and an approach not bound by convention to be unique on the Danish market.

We are especially experienced in handling oppositions and appeals, and team members frequently appear in proceedings before the European Patent Office on behalf of clients within the wind turbine industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Our key opposition and appeal specialists within mechanics and cleantech are Steven Richard Kitchen and Jacob Meyland, who regularly appear before these bodies, Steven building on experience from previous positions as patent director in a large Danish corporation.

In addition, we have advised client companies in several infringement and validity dispute cases before the Danish and Swedish courts, and Scandinavian litigation work has become something of a speciality for the firm. Mikkel Bender and Axel Heimann are highly recognised for their tactical skills and frequently advise on high-profile pharmaceutical cases in the Danish and Swedish courts.

With the team’s extensive experience in post-grant procedures both before the national courts of Europe and before the European Patent Office and the Boards of Appeal, we are looking forward to utilizing our experience and knowledge before the Unified Patent Court. In support of this effort, Mikkel Bender, Steven Richard Kitchen, Axel Heimann, Rune Risgaard, and soon Christian Espersen, Natalia Zakharova and Jacob Meyland, have obtained the necessary qualifications to appear before the Unified Patent Court as European Patent Litigators.