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Plougmann & Vingtoft

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Denmark

Plougmann & Vingtoft has a strong team led by nine partners. Among them is partner Anne Schouboe, who is a former chairman of the Association of Danish Patent Agents. Schouboe along with European patent attorneys Henrik Skødt and Kim Wagner acts as an expert witness to court cases. Over the past few years the firm has worked to keep ahead of the competition, entering into cooperation with Deltapatents, which runs EQE preparation courses for IP professionals, and in 2009 established a partnership with German firm Savic Patentanwälte. Elsewhere, the firm has been working on client-focused innovations, including offering a fixed price on patents in the international phase, online IP management services and a service allowing clients to outsource their IP work.

Clients are happy with the firm. Partner Nils Jakob Mørbak is recommended by one: "He has always been an excellent patent lawyer," says the client. The firm "has done a great job for us over the years" says another client, while another adds that the firm is "very flexible and has lots of qualified employees as well as external partners".


Norway

Plougmann & Vingtoft has been busy in 2010 doing a lot of IP strategy advisory work, giving advice on contentious cases and working in R&D. The firm has a small office in Oslo compared to some of the leading competitors but it has an advantage at a cross-border level. It has a number of strategic links through the region, with Swedish firm Ström & Gullikson, German IP consultancy Savic Patentanwälte, Danish law firm Gorrissen Federspiel and European technology transfer company TTO. The firm has a number of well-known attorneys across its Scandinavian offices, including Oslo partner and managing director Sindre-Jacob Bostad. In 2010 it hired an additional European patent attorney and industry background senior consultant.


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This firm does not have a profile in the 2011 Handbook