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Dehns has a long and proud history of working with Norwegian innovators, dating back nearly 50 years. In January 2021 the acquisition of Leogriff, one of Norway’s leading IP Consultancies, further strengthened our Norwegian service offering, embedding our local knowledge of the Norwegian market.

With offices in Oslo, Munich and London, along with 5 additional UK regional offices, we offer our clients a truly international service, combined with local expertise and deep knowledge of the Norwegian market landscape. Top-tier ranked by all leading legal and IP directories, Dehns provides and implements strategic advice to the full spectrum of organisations and technologies, from multinationals and SMEs to start-ups and universities. Our expertise spans biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to software, mechanical engineering and branding.

We provide a comprehensive range of IP-related services including patentability advice and FTO analysis; patent drafting and prosecution services; oppositions and appeals management at the EPO; trade mark and design protection; trade secrets, strategic advice on how to build and grow your IP portfolio; IP management consulting; dispute resolution; advice on licencing issues; and more.

We’re proud of our position as one of the most highly regarded IP law firms in Norway. We currently represent the top 3 Norwegian applicants filing the most patent applications over the last 3 years, 6 out of the top 10 filers, and 8 of the top 15. We regularly travel to visit our clients who are located all over Norway, including Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger and Tromsø.

We work at the forefront of development in intellectual property, building our extensive experience, with a thorough understanding of cross-cultural nuances in patents, trade mark and design law. In this way, we use our practical knowledge and pragmatic approach to achieve the most commercially successful outcome for our clients.

3 Dehns represents the top three patent application filers in Norway
470 Dehns filed 470 trade mark applications in 2023
3,350 Dehns filed 3,350 European Patent applications in 2023
6,763 Dehns filed a total of 6,763 patent applications in 2023

Our clients

As well as working with large Norwegian multinationals, Dehns works with individual Norwegian inventors, start-ups, SMEs, and leading universities, hospitals, TTOs, incubators and research institutions. We work with many of our clients from foundation to exit, as a partner in growth and internationalisation. We keep our clients’ requirements and objectives in mind, ensuring they get the best possible advice, and follow a trajectory that ensures all the work we do with them is both cost effective and relevant to the organisation size and business strategy. We understand the issues companies face when commercialising their IP and appreciate the importance of covering all potential aspects relating to a new technology. In this way we are able to maximise the value of the IP to the company, which is especially relevant when seeking investment or licensing the technology.

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Our experience

 

From large corporations through to individual private inventors, our client list spans a wide range of sectors. This diversity is matched by the specialist fields in which Dehns’ attorneys and agents work – our expertise spans Life Science and Chemical innovation, as well as Engineering-based technologies. Our forward thinking and progressive team are well known for their ability to understand even the most complex technologies and markets.

We are an integrated part of the Norwegian innovation scene, especially in Oslo where we work closely with many different accelerators and business incubators by offering practical IP support to their members. With our office located at Forskningsparken / Oslo Science Park, we regularly provide free IP clinics for incubators and organisations based at the Science Park. Read more about our work with accelerators and incubators here. These incubators provide the starting point for many of the spin-out companies from universities and research institutes, as well as individual entrepreneurs and founders. Read more about our work with Universities and Technology Transfer Offices here.

Our IP management consultancy-based services, which draw on Dehns’ in-depth IP and innovation expertise, give value specifically tailored to start-up companies, particularly early stage start-ups. Read more about our consultancy services here.

Across our eight offices, we offer our clients an extensive network of attorneys, all of whom work as permanent staff. In addition to our Oslo-based team, we also have many UK and European attorneys from our other offices frequently visiting Norway. With our team of qualified patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys, IP management consultants, IP strategists and litigators, our team has the expertise to support IP objectives in any area.

“I am impressed by how you take my random comments and turn the document into something logical and readable. I think this is one of our more easily readable patents and I believe you have written in a lot of flexibility to the method. I think it will cover our practical implementation of the product very well."

Norwegian acoustics company

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