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 signals a higher value of the invention to interested parties (competitors, partners, 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 at 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 easy access to the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) that enables fast and inexpensive patents in many countries.