Intellectual property

Plesner

Plesner is well-known in the industry for its strong trade mark prosecution practice, handling high-profile IP litigation and assisting in copyright, design, and trade mark matters. The department has an impressive portfolio of clients, especially well-known design businesses, and advises leading technology companies on copyright matters. The team also has strengths in marketing law, consumer law, and e-commerce law, advising on all aspects of online and offline marketing. Kasper Frahm heads the trade mark and design team and is an expert in trade mark law. Other key names to note are Sture Rygaard with vast experience in patent and trade mark litigation; litigator Mikkel Vittrup, whose work includes the enforcement of patents and regulatory rights; and Peter-Ulrik Plesner who has a history of representing blue-chip clients in patent, trade mark and marketing disputes.

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Testimonials

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‘Peter-Ulrik Plesner is one of the most experienced patents lawyer in Denmark, and he makes extremely good use of that experience in his practice.'
‘Kasper Frahm is highly competent trademark advice on litigation and strategy.'
‘Peter-Ulrik Plesner has shaped the IP world in Denmark for decades. Mikkel Vittrup is one of the new IP stars of the IP world, and Jakob Dolmer will be the future one.’
‘Mikkel Vittrup and Sture Rygaard are standout practitioners who have a great deal of experience. They are meticulous in their analysis and advice, and consistently deliver.’
‘Plesner's IP team has exceptional technical understanding and in combination with their strong patent litigation foundation, they are unique in Denmark.’
‘Peter-Ulrik Plesner, Mikkel Vittrup and Jakob Dolmer make a great IP litigation team combining extensive IP and litigation knowledge with strong technical understanding. They also ensure that you as a client get suggestions that are both commercially and legally viable solutions.'

Key clients

The A.P. Moller - Maersk Group
adidas
British American Tobacco
Ralph Lauren
Burberry
LEGO
Chr. Hansen
Danske Bank
Lundbeck
Andel
Deutsche Telecom
Nintendo
Hempel
IO Interactive
Zebra (Flying Tiger Copenhagen)
Joe & the Juice
Procter & Gamble
Sonion
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Work highlights

Assisting British American Tobacco in a case against the Danish Ministry of Health concerning a Danish law introducing several new measures against e-cigarettes, tobacco heating products and nicotine pouches, including plain packaging, characterising flavour ban, retail display ban and advertising ban.
Successfully represented Sonion in multiple ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings against, among others, Huawei and Sony for infringement of Sonion's patent and utility models protecting an inventive voice pick up bone conductor to be used in noise cancellation systems in ear pods.
Represents Novo Nordisk A/S, Leo Pharma and H. Lundbeck in a case regarding the implications of the Falsified Medicines Directive on parallel import, which deals with the question of whether parallel importers are entitled to repack parallel imported products into new packages or if they are obliged to relabel the products. This question was brought before the CJEU (Court of Justice of European Union), which agreed with the standpoint of H. Lundbeck, Novo Nordisk and Leo Pharma and the ruling will have considerable precedential value in similar cases across Europe.

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