Patents and utility models

Our patents’ and utility models’ team has long since been ranked among the leading in Denmark and enjoys international recognition in this highly specialized field. Our patent and utility model offering comprises dispute resolution, including preliminary injunctions and proceedings for gathering evidence, commercial transactions, including assignments, licence agreements, R&D agreements and research agreements in most industry sectors; from biochemistry to software, agriculture, telecommunications, consumer goods and the automotive industry.

Trademarks

Contentious
Trademarks are often the most important and valuable asset of businesses, and the protection and enforcement of trademark rights is obviously high on the agenda and of the utmost strategic importance.

The trademark litigation team at BUGGE VALENTIN includes some of the most renowned Danish trademark litigators, and we are regularly retained as legal counsel for famous national and global brands in highly complex trademark litigation, including cross border litigation in several jurisdictions at a time.  

We are also experienced in the sometimes extremely complex interrelationship between the various bodies of legislation protecting designations, names and signs and we have handled many of the largest trademarks disputes in Denmark in this field.

Prosecution and trademark portfolio management
BUGGE VALENTIN’s highly skilled IP rights management team handles trademark registration and portfolio management services for a great number of Danish clients as well as international clients through our extensive international network of trademark specialists giving advice that includes not only IP aspects, but also other legal, strategic and commercial aspects.

Designs

Design rights, whether registered or unregistered, provide protection for the visual appearance of a product. BUGGE VALENTIN offers strategic advice on whether or not registration of a design is possible, or indeed advisable, and we help develop enforcement strategies both in Denmark and internationally. Also, we advise on the applicability of supplementary or alternative protection under copyright or unfair competition law.

Copyright

BUGGE VALENTIN’s copyright lawyers’ experience covers most sectors and copyright issues, but the team is perhaps most known for its work in the design and fashion industry, representing several of Denmark’s world-renowned designers/design firms in applied arts, including the furniture and lighting industries. Our practice covers both contentious and non-contentious matters.   

Media regulatory

Commercial enterprises and private individuals alike may suffer treatment by the press or digital media that contravenes the “sound press ethics” standard set out the in the Danish Press Ethical Rules. Our team has significant experience in handling these highly specialised conflicts, both in the general court system and at the Danish Press Council. 

Marketing Practices law

BUGGE VALENTIN regularly advises its high-profile clients and litigates on their behalf in online and off-line matters pertaining to advertising campaigns,  product imitation, exploitation of goodwill, misleading actions and omissions, aggressive commercial practices, comparative advertising and general unfair marketing practices as well as the many complex issues that arise in connection with marketing campaigns covering regulated products within specific sectors and areas. 

Trade secrets

Keeping commercial information secret may be a – necessary – alternative to relying on IP protection and in our experience an IP strategy is not complete unless due consideration is given to  trade secrets. BUGGE VALENTIN assists clients in developing strategies for trade secrets as an alternative to IP protection, typically patent or utility model protection, and we have a significant experience in litigating matters involving trade secrets.

Employees’ IP rights

In the field of patents and utility models, but sometimes also in other IP areas, the question increasingly arises whether or not a right conceived by an employee is vested in the employee or the employer. In most countries, including Denmark, mandatory legislation protects the employee and at BUGGE VALENTIN we have acted for both sides in connection with negotiations and disputes concerning employees’ IP rights.

Parallel imports

BUGGE VELENTIN’s parallel imports team has been involved in most of the Danish landmark cases within this field and is generally recognized as the leading parallel imports team in trademark disputes.

Our experience covers a wide range of sectors, including branded goods, cosmetics, the FMCG-market and pharmaceuticals.

Our experience in the field of parallel imports of pharmaceuticals is unrivalled in Denmark and we have appeared before the Danish Supreme Court numerous times as well as before the Court of Justice of the European Union in disputes that have had ramifications not only in Denmark, but also within the EU.