Nordics - Denmark

DLA Piper Denmark

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DLA Piper Denmark’s IP team provides clients with a full range of advice on IP matters, including distribution issues, patent licensing and franchising agreements. Annemette Ellermann Holmbom heads the practice; assisting clients on trade mark, designs and project infringement as well as in IP litigation. Anette Moll Berg , promoted to partner in January 2023, is adept in a full range of IP rights including trade marks, marketing law and distribution law while Lykke Honoré and Niels Ankerstjerne Sloth represent clients in complex patent infringement and invalidity proceedings and other IP-related litigation.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘A strategic and hands-on team.'
  • 'Niels Ankerstjerne Sloth has significant commercial understanding.'
  • 'Lykke Honoré has deep insight and a pragmatic approach.’
  • ‘Lykke Honoré’s strategic and result-oriented approach ensures that disputes are steered towards the solution that meets the client’s objectives and expectations, while averting unnecessary litigation. She has a stand-out approachable personality and a strong analytical mindset which collectively makes her unique in her field.’

  • ‘The team is always available and offers swift action. Their recommendations in a matter is always very clear and understandable.’

  • ‘High level of trust and engagement.’

  • ‘Sound commercial and legal advice on trademark matters.’

  • ‘Anette Moll Berg has a sound understanding of the commercial and technical aspects of trademarks.’

Key clients

  • e-Boks A/S
  • Louis Poulsen A/S
  • Australian Bodycare ApS
  • Velliv
  • Dansk Industri Byg
  • Normann Copenhagen ApS
  • Hans J Wegners Tegnestue
  • Libertine-Libertine ApS
  • Hottinger Brüel & Kjær A/S
  • Foss Analytical A/S and the entire FOSS Group
  • Reform Group A/S
  • DHI A/S
  • PFA Pension forsikringsselskab
  • Phase One A/S
  • Capture One A/S
  • Sonion A/S
  • Sisters Point A/S
  • Fleye ApS
  • Twoday A/S
  • Profile Pictures ApS
  • Konges Sløjd A/S
  • Pernille Corydon Jewellery
  • Westpack A/S
  • Incondia AB
  • Funnivation A/S
  • Statens Serum Institut

Work highlights

  • Assisted TandlægeTryghed, an organization dealing among other services with insurances to the dentist industry, in a matter of misleading marketing and price comparison against a competing organization.
  • Assists the well-known Danish burger restaurant JAGGER Fast Food, i.e. Jagger Junk ApS in a number of cases defending their trademark “JAGGER fast food” against Musidor, a Dutch music publisher, who owns trademark registrations of MICK JAGGER in the EU region.
  • Assists the Danish organization Human Library with enforcement of its trademark and exclusive concept within the educational and social sector in a number of countries including Holland, Poland, India and South Africa

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Annemette Ellermann Holmbom

Other key lawyers

Anette Moll Berg, Niels Ankerstjerne Sloth, Lykke Honoré