Open job position - Partner Designate

Nordic Patent Service is expanding!

Success begets success, and accordingly, the partnership is looking to recruit a like-minded attorney to join their team – either as a Partner Designate or as a lateral Partner hire

The Nordic Patent Service Team

We obtain early certainty

We apply a first-strike strategy towards the patent office with complete and well-prepared patent applications to obtain an early indication of patentability. Our first-strike strategy reduces the risk of unpleasant surprises later and minimizes total costs. It also provides the option of exploiting the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) for fast and efficient patent grants around the globe.

We align the patent strategy with your business

We could prepare a patent application based on purely technical considerations. However, we are eager to know the business environment for the ensuing patent right. The more we understand of your business, the better we can design the scope of the patent to cover your product or service.

Efficient service

Our firm is large enough to handle complex matters and high-volume assignments and lean enough to avoid bureaucracy and maintain efficiency.

Protect your AI & machine learning inventions with patents

Despite common misconception, inventions relating to machine learning & artificial intelligence can be effectively protected by patents. We have significant experience in preparing and prosecuting patent applications in this field. Neural networks are a key growth area where significant value is created. Secure your AI assets before they become public property. Reach out to us if you want to hear more.

You can expect more from us

Naturally, you can expect that we draft great patent applications and that we excel in patent prosecution. After all, that is what you would expect from experienced and qualified patent attorneys. But you can expect more from Nordic Patent Service

We switched to Nordic Patent Service in 2018, and what a difference! Working with them has allowed us to focus fully on developing our products, resting assured that Nordic Patent Service takes care of all the patent-related matters. We appreciate their focus on our needs, their technical expertise, the high quality of their advice, and their attention to detail.
— Peter Sølbeck and Emil Cederfeldt Larsen, Flexlogical & Price Invena

We obtain early certainty

Our preferred strategy is to go for an indication of patentability at the first patent office of the first filing, typically the Danish Patent Office. It takes time to obtain patents globally. However, when you have a high certainty of a patent being granted in the end, you can afford to wait.

Our first-strike strategy reduces the risk of unpleasant surprises at a later stage, and the granted Danish patent communicates a higher value of the invention to interested parties such as competitors, partners and investors.

We prefer to do a preliminary search ourselves prior to the drafting of a patent application. It gives us confidence in the technology and assures us that pertinent prior art has not been overlooked. A more thorough search is performed by the patent office after the application has been filed. A subsequent application, such as a European or international application, is searched by another patent office (usually the European Patent Office). The provision of searches from two different authorities reduces the risk of unpleasant surprises in the subsequent prosecution of the patent application. Thus, it is more likely that the most relevant prior art is identified at an early stage.

Another advantage of using the Early Certainty strategy is the easy access to the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) that provides fast and inexpensive patents in many countries.

It was only when the US patent with the assistance from Nordic Patent Service was issued that interested investors queued up and I was able to obtain an exit with my company.
— Jens Olsen, Fenucure

We align the patent rights with your business strategy

We can draft a patent application based on purely technical considerations. However, we are eager to know the business environment for the ensuing patent right. The better we understand your business, the better we can design the scope of the patent to cover your product or service.

In a broader perspective, a patent application can be tailored to render the patent right future-proof.

Part of the threat experienced by your business may be rooted in patents belonging to others. Early identification of threatening patent rights is essential for pre-empting this threat. The specific patent rights may be identified through market information or in a patent search. We strive to obtain a trusted relationship with our clients so they feel confident and safe to inform us of threatening patent rights. We develop a personal relationship with our clients that we guard and cherish. We are brothers in arms fighting for our clients’ rights to obtain the best possible protection.

Constant surveillance of competitor patent rights is necessary for knowing the legal playground. We have excellent software tools for illustrating the progression of the patent rights, which will identify technologies your competitors are developing well before their products reach the market. This way, it will show you the sweet spot for development of your own products and services.

We work very closely together with Nordic Patent Service to secure that our patent strategy remains fully aligned with our business strategy. We can focus on developing our business knowing that all patent matters are expertly taken care of.

— Esben Gad, Aquaporin

We provide efficiency

Our firm is large enough to handle complex matters and high-volume assignments, and lean enough to avoid bureaucracy and maintain efficiency.

Our patent attorneys are highly skilled in various technical disciplines, but they do not work in a vacuum – equally important are our competent administrators. Everything which may be performed without technical insight in the specific invention is handled by our IP administrators, including filing applications and office action replies with patent offices, preparing filing reports, attending to annuity fees, etc. The support from the administrators is invaluable for the patent attorneys because they can focus their attention on the client and concentrate on bringing value to the case.

We communicate effectively with our clients and generally prefer a telephone conversation over a lengthy email for a better alignment of the client’s wishes and our work. This helps us translate our efficient work layout and our effective communication into lower expenses for our clients.

The text in the description of a patent application contains both obligatory parts and some free-style text allowing the applicant to explain embodiments of the invention. We put substantial effort and imagination into the embodiments but tend to omit an overly detailed description. In other words, we give the patent offices what they need for granting the patent but preserve the more hands-on details as trade secrets.

We are sure-footed in conventional patent prosecution and that allows us to go to the limit and beyond if needed for pursuing our clients’ interests. We use our experience to amend an application during examination to obtain the right scope of protection in the first response to avoid excessive correspondence with the patent office.

The talented people at Nordic Patent Service draw on their previous experiences as European patent examiners in the prosecution of patent applications. We appreciate the great work they have done for us.

— Kenneth Green, Averill & Green