2012
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Danish, English
ADIPA FICPI
European Patent Attorneys highly experienced in European and Danish patent law and renowned for post-grant contentious matters, COPA Copenhagen Patents is one of the country’s leading IP firms and has been awarded several international awards for its outstanding quality and service to clients.
Who we are
We are qualified European Patent Attorneys with many years of experience in drafting and prosecuting patent applications with a global perspective to ease prosecution in the most popular international markets.
We are proud of combining individual skills into a team effort and houses a unit of some of the most esteemed individual patent attorneys in Denmark. Our patent attorneys are backed by a qualified and certified very experienced patent administrator team working closely with both attorneys and clients to ensure the end goal of providing tailored and qualified service. We cover most areas of technology, but our main focus areas are biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, mechanics, and electronics.
The patent attorney team comprises European Patent Attorneys Mikkel Bender, Peter Kim Jensen, Steven Richard Kitchen, Jacob Meyland, Axel Heimann, Sylvia Yang, Rune Risgaard, Christian Espersen, Natalia Zakharova as well as patent attorney Sune Højfeldt.
What we do best
COPA Copenhagen Patents consistently aims at providing advice where quality is above all. We consider our combination of expertise and years of experience, our genuine interest in entrepreneurship and an approach not bound by convention to be unique on the Danish market.
We are especially experienced in handling oppositions and appeals, and team members frequently appear in proceedings before the European Patent Office on behalf of clients within the wind turbine industry and the pharmaceutical industry. Our key opposition and appeal specialists within mechanics and cleantech are Steven Richard Kitchen and Jacob Meyland, who regularly appear before these bodies, Steven building on experience from previous positions as patent director in a large Danish corporation.
In addition, we have advised client companies in several infringement and validity dispute cases before the Danish and Swedish courts, and Scandinavian litigation work has become something of a speciality for the firm. Mikkel Bender and Axel Heimann are highly recognised for their tactical skills and frequently advise on high-profile pharmaceutical cases in the Danish and Swedish courts.
With the team’s extensive experience in post-grant procedures both before the national courts of Europe and before the European Patent Office and the Boards of Appeal, we are looking forward to utilizing our experience and knowledge before the Unified Patent Court. In support of this effort, Mikkel Bender, Steven Richard Kitchen, Axel Heimann, Rune Risgaard, and soon Christian Espersen, Natalia Zakharova and Jacob Meyland, have obtained the necessary qualifications to appear before the Unified Patent Court as European Patent Litigators.
Our Aspiration
At COPA, we aspire to provide equal opportunities for our workforce and associates. It is our belief that valuing diversity and inclusiveness provides a pleasant and inspiring workplace, which adds to the value that we provide to our clients and business partners.
Our Policy Statement
COPA embraces all differences in age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, language, nationality or national origin, race, religion or belief, and sexual orientation. We seek to support and develop people with a global mindset, cultural sensitivity, and international experience.
Our Ethical Standards
It is our ambition to have a diverse representation among our people in terms of work experience, culture, international experience, and gender. At COPA, we are constantly monitoring the outcome and progress of these initiatives, and we benchmark ourselves externally against other law firms in the IP sector.
At COPA, we prohibit any form of discrimination, harassment, and workplace bullying. Likewise, we reject any hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his or her race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, or disability.
It is the responsibility of each partner and employee to respect the rights of their colleagues. COPA employees are encouraged to report any problems to their manager or their employee relations representative.
We have an internal working group dedicated to investigating initiatives for reducing COPA’s carbon footprint. COPA has embraced EPO’s initiative to hold oral proceedings by videoconference. In approximately 90% of our oral proceedings, we participate by videoconference. However, in-person hearings are still used in particularly complex cases or if our clients prefer in-person participation.
Key IP Areas
Intellectual property (prosecution), Intellectual property (contentious), Life sciences IP, Patent, Patent contentious, Patent prosecution
Key Sector Expertise
Telecommunication, Technology hardware, Robotics, Semiconductors, Renewable energy, Pharmaceutical, Optics & photonics, Nanotechnology, Medical device, Mechanical, Manufacturing, Life sciences, Internet, Instruments, Industrials, ICT & software, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical, Computer technology & services, Electrical, Electronics
