Chas. Hude A/S is a leading IP consulting firm which advises internationally on all aspects concerning intellectual property.
Based in Denmark, the teams of dedicated advisors and lawyers at Chas. Hude are known for providing high value, strategic solutions with focus on client service in matters essential to their success.These values are core to Chas Hude A/S and have been since our founding in 1896.
Total client approach
Chas. Hude do not just advise.The firm collaborates with clients across the full spectrum of possibilities and functions to meet and solve challenges at hand. Chas. Hude A/S optimise delivery of legal and commercial advice and guide clients to form greater value and the strong partnership in a “total client” approach.
We carefully listen to the needs of our clients. Chas. Hude seek to come up with optimum solutions as well as creative strategies in order to help clients achieve long and short term intellectual property goals.
Multidisciplinarian IP knowhow
Our dedicated experts are multidisciplinary and bring decades of international and domestic experience spanning a wide range of legal, technical, biological and business disciplines. At Chas. Hude our advisors are frequently recognised and awarded for high standards and quality in the legal and advisory professions.
The values are shared and upheld on a daily basis by our teams of dedicated advisers and trusted lawyers who provide a full array of commercial litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, hereunder some of the world’s most innovative companies, start-ups as well as public and nonprofit organisations.
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.
Patrade is a full service IP Consultancy Firm. We are a highly specialised international law firm, advising our clients on issues related to intellectual property law, contract law, competition law, IT law and some aspects of company law.
We work with enforcement in all types of disputes related to intellectual property law or the Danish Marketing Act, including lawsuits, injunction and preservation of evidence cases, infringement cases, invalidity cases, parallel import, and anti-counterfeit cases. We take charge of negotiations in connection with contracts or disputes related to intellectual property rights, and we draft intellectual property contracts, such as license agreements, assignment agreements, IT contracts, techtrans agreements and distribution agreements.
We cover the full spectrum of services from application and registration of a right, such as a patent or a trademark, to potential infringement lawsuits and court rulings. This makes us a full-service consultancy firm and ensures that you need not engage any other advisers if you want to protect your rights. We have in-depth insight into your cases, and we offer both technical and legal expertise under one roof – saving you time and money.
Zacco is an international full-service IP firm, with around 125 authorised patent attorneys, 75 authorised trademark and design attorneys, and 20 experts in Digital brands and corporate domain management. We operate globally and in most sectors, and our aim is to view the world as our customers do, building practical IP strategies that secure their ideas, innovations and brand character.
Together we help organisations to develop, manage and protect the value of their IP throughout its lifecycle. Combining physical and digital solutions, from the creation of new assets and identities, to monetisation and enforcement of rights, to ongoing monitoring against infringement and abuse.
Zacco, and many of our colleagues, regularly achieve Top Tier or Gold rankings and recommendations from Managing Intellectual Property, World Trademark Review, Intellectual Asset Management and The Legal 500, which we believe independently verifies our commitment to quality, excellence and innovation.
Patent, Trademark and Design Prosecution
Our international presence means a single point of contact can handle prosecution in multiple jurisdictions. Many of our colleagues are European Patent Attorneys, with a growing number authorised to represent clients directly before the Unified Patent Court (UPC). At Zacco, you will find a skilled and knowledgeable IP practitioner able to advise and assist you with all current and emerging fields of technology, whether you work physically in chemistry, greentech, mechanics, materials or biotech, or digitally in digitalisation, software, AI or machine learning, among other areas.
Our trademark and design practice assists all industries with international filing and prosecution, availability and infringement opinions, with a particular focus on EU trademark practice including oppositions, cancellations and appeals before the EUIPO.
We cover multiple European jurisdictions directly including the EUIPO/EPO, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and we operate internationally through a comprehensive network of trusted long-term global partners. We also provide a range of IP portfolio management and IP supporting services.
Litigation and Disputes
When in need of expertise in IP litigation and dispute matters, clients can rely on Zacco. We are renowned experts in IP, with both the legal and the technical proficiency in-house to successfully represent your interests and enforce your IP rights. This could be directly, in cooperation with leading law firms, or providing litigation and technical support to other counsel or trusted representatives before the authorities.
The legal practice serves all industries with advice and assistance related to IP. This includes due diligence, drafting and negotiation of contracts or licensing agreements, or Data Protection, marketing law and other compliance matters. We also advise on e-commerce, litigation, domain name conflict resolution, customs surveillance and counterfeit prevention, among other areas. Zacco has successfully represented international clients in proceedings before national courts and the European Court of Justice.
Digital Brands, Corporate Domain Management and IT Security
With a significant portion of IP infringement now taking place online, we have introduced services to help clients stay ahead of new and emerging threats to both physical and digital IP. Our Digital Brands team can actively monitor your IP and brand rights online, and identifying and removing potential counterfeits or infringements across online marketplaces, social media and the metaverse. Our Corporate Domain Management experts can assist with the registration or acquisition of traditional and emerging domains, including .brand solutions, alongside more general renewals, portfolio consolidation and email or domain security. We also provide cybersecurity training and testing, digital forensics and secure software development services.
IP360: The Future of Intellectual Property
When the world changes, so do we. The introduction of IP360 recognised that IP rights do not exist within a bubble – they form part of a wider IP ecosystem that encompasses everything to do with protecting the value of an organisation. As we have grown, so too have our services, providing exceptional capability, unique geographical reach, and protection that stretches from the first flash of an idea through patents, trademarks, online brand protection and beyond, across the entire IP lifecycle.
More than 150 years of innovative thinking
We have a long history of protecting, monetising and enforcing IP, and list many leading brands and innovators as clients. Our focus on close collaboration, technical expertise and high quality makes Zacco one of Europe’s leading IP solutions specialists.
Zacco is a well-established IP firm in Scandinavia. The firm is highly recommended for IP protection and portfolio management work. Its patent attorneys can work in many different technical fields to protect inventions; they are also experienced in IP litigation. Over the years, the firm has expanded its patent practice across Europe and added IT/cybersecurity as one of its services. It also has a digital brands practice to complement its trademark offering.
Notable patent practitioners: Camilla Rendal Nielsen, Bent Lundsager, Sidse Thinggård, Anders Fredriksson, Casper Struve, Pernille Thorsboe, and Thomas Sundien.
Notable trademark practitioners: Lone Prehn, Fabio Pezzolato, and Peter Gustav Olson.
Struve, Fredriksson, Lundsager, Thinggård, Sundien, and Thorsboe are also noted for their patent litigation experience. Thomas Mølsgaard is a notable lawyer in the practice.