Norway

Firm overview

Zacco is a modern, consultancy driven company with a 360° perspective on Intellectual Property: From patent filing, trademark registration and design protection to dispute resolution, information security and portfolio management.

Our vision is to secure and protect our clients’ entire innovation process and intangible assets. With our technical and legal expertise as well as experience we want to guard our clients’ innovations and make them reach their full potential and development.

Our aim is to be our clients’ preferred partner within IP consultancy besides being their innovative partner in the development of new technology to meet the digitalization which the IP business is facing and the world is undergoing.

We are more than 300 experts within all aspects of Intellectual Property including a large number of experienced Patent, Trademark and Design Attorneys as well as highly skilled Attorneys at Laws, Paralegals and IT Specialists.

Last Updated 25th January 2018

Firm overview

Onsagers AS is a leading full-service specialized IP firm and IP strategy advisor in Norway, acting globally with our dedicated International IP team.
Team of International IP experts in Norway.

Onsagers’ dedicated International IP team offers a 'one-stop-shop', where attorneys at law and European patent attorneys with extensive international experience work in close collaboration.

Our International Team has comprehensive experience in trademark and patent prosecution, enforcement, including customs seizures, passing-off and unfair competition cases, as well as trademark and patent infringement and validity cases, some of which have attracted international attention. We will give you the best professional and cost-efficient advice for your IP in Norway.

Our team members have vast experience from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO), as well as from representing Norway in WIPO, the EPO and Nordic Baltic IP Committees. Our experience ensures updated insight into Norwegian IP practice and efficient advice and best strategy for your IP rights.

Your Norwegian IP partner
Onsagers is one of the largest, leading and longest established IP firms in Norway, with over 70 years of practice.
Onsagers promises to give professional, clear-cut advice with a practical, no-nonsense approach; we dare to say GO / NO GO.

Our objective is to be your privileged partner for the protection, management and exploitation of your IP. Through open dialogue and clear-cut advice, combined with modern technology, updated services and a cost-conscious approach, Onsagers offers premium-quality IP advice.

Network Memberships
INTA, ECTA, MARQUES, EPI, NPF, FICPI, TEKNA, I3PM, SIPF, SFIR, AIPPI, NIR, LES

Last Updated 29th of June 2018

Firm overview

Protector IP Consultants is the IP consultancy that puts quality before quantity and long-time business relationships before short term profit. Whether our client is a multinational corporation or an entrepreneur, we strive to provide the best tailor-suited service according to the client's needs.

We are a lean and efficient IPR agency with a total number of 20 highly skilled professionals. We work closely with our clients and to find the best and most efficient solutions to our clients' intellectual property needs. We strive to understand the company strategy of our clients and closely link our advices on IPR strategy to this.

We represent clients before the Norwegian Patent Office (Patentstyret), the Eurpoean Patent Office (EPO). and the EUIPO (former OHIM).

In countries where we cannot represent clients directly, we choose among the best attorneys in our network. We strive to have personal knowledge of the agents we use in each country. This ensures high quality work in all foreign prosecution.

We are different. First and foremost because we are personal, direct and seamless in meeting our customers, but also because our expertise and experience enable a holistic approach to the customer's IP needs.

Our key services:

• IP Protection - Patents, Trademarks, Designs, Domain names, Copyright, Trade Secret
• IP Strategy & IP Portfolio Management
• IP Legal Services - Licensing, Contracts, Agreements, Due Diligence
• IP Enforcement & Conflicts - Administrative measures, Negotiations, Judicial conflicts
• IP Investigations & Surveillance - Preliminary Searches, Freedom to Operate, Surveillance

Our Clients:

Some of the largest Norwegian companies, such as Aker Solutions, Nortura, Bring/Posten and Fred. Olsen & Co., have chosen us as their IP consultant. We also serve smaller companies that are in the forefront of their field, such as Norrøna, Laerdal Medical and Roxar. 

Our people:

In addition to Christoffer Vedal, head of legal department and recognized among the World’s Leading Trademark Professionals by WTR 1000, we are proud to have Ida Marie Daae and Thomas Hvammen Nicholson, former examiner with EUIPO among our experienced attorneys. Ingeborg Alme Råsberg is our latest addition to our legal team. She brings with her a strong track record from both the Nowegian Patent Authority and EUIPO.

In the patent field, we have Bjarne G. Coward, who has been recognized by IAM as a master tactician. In addition, we have the experienced litigation assistant and former Reporter General of FICPI's CET commission, Arild Tofting, EPI Board Member and optical measurement specialist, Dag E. Thrane, material technology specialist and former independent inventor, Espen Hov, electro-technical and mechincal expert, Krister Mindrebø, and Anne-Gro Bildøe Imset, a mechincal expert with more than 8 years of experience from the Norwegian Patent Office and currently a Coach for Students in the Candidate Support Project organized by EPO in collaboration with EPI. 

Our Managing Director, Petter Westnes, is an experienced IP strategist. He comes from the customer side and has managed large international IP portfolios for many years.

Last updated 3rd September 2020

Firm overview

Bryn Aarflot AS is a full-service IP boutique and one of Norway’s leading IP firms. The firm provides services on all levels and across all disciplines of intellectual property and related areas of law, including patent, design and trademark clearance/FTO, filing and prosecution services, as well as legal assistance, enforcement and litigation services within said fields, copyrights, unfair competition and more. From its office in Oslo, Norway, the firm assists a number of foreign clients of all sizes in clearing, protecting, licensing and enforcing their intellectual property in Norway, as well as Norwegian companies with similar interests in Norway and abroad.

Over the last years, the firm has seen an increasing demand from especially Norwegian companies seeking assistance in creating robust and sustainable IP strategies for their business, including incorporation of IP into overall company strategies.

Increasing cooperation between the legal and patent teams on specific matters is also a clear trend at the firm, especially in relation to patent contentious work. The firm’s ability to assemble strong “in-house” teams of lawyers and patent attorneys, tailored for handling patent matters within any technical field, is proving to give significant competitive edge. A small team of the firm’s lawyers is now working primarily on contentious matters across all disciplines of intellectual property, while many of its patent attorneys have obtained significant experience in preparing and attending court hearings as advisors, expert witnesses and expert judges.

Bryn Aarflot is regularly recognized as a top-tier IP firm in Norway by a number of legal publications. The company was named “IP Firm of the Year” by Managing Intellectual Property in 2016 as well as in 2017, and has been shortlisted for this award, and ranked as a top tier firm in both trademark and patent prosecution each year for at least the last decade. In 2015- 2108, Bryn Aarflot was also ranked in the contentious categories for trademark/copyright and patent. Several of the firm’s attorneys are regularly named among the top professionals within their respective fields of expertise in different IP awards by other renowned publications, such as the IAM Patent 1000, WTR 1000, Who’s Who Legal, ILO Client Choice Awards (wins throughout 2013-2017), Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, etc.

Bryn Aarflot made the top rankings in the WTR 1000 for the years 2011 to 2018 and several of its partners were listed in the individual rankings for each of these years. In the 2018 edition of the WTR 1000, the firm had more individuals listed than any other Norwegian firm.

The firm aims to be Norway’s most client-attentive, adaptive and service-minded IP firm, making the Bryn Aarflot name synonymous with proactive attendance to client interests and needs.

Network Memberships
INTA, ECTA, AIPPI, EPI, FICPI, LES, Norwegian Bar Association

Last updated 3rd of May 2018