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

aera is a European IP consultancy firm, built on Nordic values but with an international outlook. Founded in Copenhagen in January 2018, the firm now has patent attorneys in Stockholm, Oslo, Berlin, Munich and Madrid and has expanded its operations to cover all aspects of IP protection.

The name aera is derived from the Latin word for ‘era’ (‘æra’ in Danish). The firm’s mission stems from its name – the firm wishes to create a new era in the IP community and become one of the market leaders in IP consultancy.

We consider the commercial and technical issues – just as clearly as the legal issues. This is why clients make us their first call, when they require a range of services that include IP counselling, protection, litigation, and IP strategy – or simply just to discuss important business decisions.

The firm strives to provide high quality services to clients that truly use IP strategically and links these strategies to their business needs.

By providing basic prosecution with a fast turnover, along with strategic projects like brand protection, invention harvesting, fast track prosecution, UPC collaborations and IP management, we want to become one of the most wanted IP firms in the region.

The firm has invested in a unique MacOS driven user interface based and cloud controlled state-of-the-art IT systems, which enable extremely efficient work process anywhere. These systems not only deliver cost savings, but also provide us with the flexibility to meet our clients’ and employees’ needs!

Firm overview

Potter Clarkson helps companies, organisations and individuals across all sectors of business to understand, create, protect and defend the commercial value of their innovations anywhere in the world through intellectual property rights.

As a full-service intellectual property law firm with expertise in patents, trade marks, designs, litigation, licensing and consultancy, Potter Clarkson provides specialist support in all areas of IP including:

• Identifying what can be protected.
• Securing IP rights.
• Realising the full value of clients’ assets with smart commercial arrangements.
• Helping clients develop the value of their innovations by enforcing their rights against competitors.
• Putting in place a managed IP strategy so that clients can maximise commercial opportunities.

Potter Clarkson is recognised for its wide-ranging technical and legal expertise, progressive thinking, business knowledge, deep commercial insight and approachability.

The firm’s experts make it their business to understand the practical challenges facing their clients, as well as their commercial ambitions for the future. Providing the very highest quality of client service, strategic advice and ‘right first time’ delivery, Potter Clarkson ultimately measures its own success by the success of its clients.

What makes the firm different?

As a firm, Potter Clarkson has one clearly defined purpose: Creating value from innovation.

This provides the context and meaning for the work their attorneys and solicitors do every day. They are committed to using their expertise to solve the IP challenges their clients face so that their innovations achieve commercial success.

Through the firm’s integrated service lines, deep sector knowledge and genuine interest in innovative ideas, the firm offers a complete IP solution to every challenge and opportunity their clients face.

Built for success

The firm is recognised as a top-tier firm in Europe, with offices in multiple EU-member states, having received accreditations from the IP profession’s leading benchmarking organisations and programmes.

With the infrastructure to match its credentials as a leading European firm, there is a commitment to continuous improvement in the quality of its services by investing in its people and systems. The 200-strong specialist team operates from dedicated offices in the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Germany, supported by an established network of overseas attorneys to provide expert advice, wherever clients want to take their product or brand.

Having been in business for more than 130 years, the firm takes great pride in its heritage, but is firmly focussed on the future. That’s why Potter Clarkson invests heavily in shaping its services and products around the needs of innovative businesses.

Firm overview

Over the last century we’ve been lucky enough to have played a part in protecting some of the world’s most ground-breaking inventions and high profile brands. You can trust us to know IP law inside out, to be curious, and to connect the dots to reach solutions others don’t.

We will provide you with a team, rich in real-world experience, comprising experts who have worked at the forefront of pioneering technologies. A substantial number of our lawyers hold qualifications in scientific or technical fields, meaning we are often called upon for our specialist knowledge and insight on large international mandates. We are respected for our creative and original solutions.

We offer both litigation and transactional support in relation to all IP rights, from small innovative projects to the largest, most complex and ground-breaking transactions and disputes.

Our approach has always been centred on client service, collaborating and innovating with our clients to create bespoke solutions that make their lives easier. This includes: our 'twobirds Pattern' product, a proprietary, in-house patent valuation and analysis tool, that allows us to landscape, analyse, and value patent portfolios in an automated and sophisticated way; and our innovative and dynamic Brand Protection Reporting Portal, which uses dynamic charts that give clients an up-to-date overview of their risk profile at any given time.

Talk to us to find out how our tools, experience and our genuine passion for IP can help you devise a strategy that will help to maintain your competitive edge, whilst protecting and optimising your IP in the best way possible.

Internationally Bird & Bird has over 400 IP lawyers, attorneys and legal professionals across our 29 offices, many of whom have known each other and worked together for years, meaning we're all on the same page and offer consistency and quality that runs through all levels of seniority. We are therefore ideally placed to devise and coordinate multi-jurisdictional litigation strategies and,in the future, to represent clients before the Unified Patent Court.

Office Locations: Australia, Belgium, China, Czech Republic & Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and United States of America