The SME Fund 2025 offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) financial support to protect their IP rights, including patents, trademarks and design rights. Up to 4200 euros.

On November 12, 2024, you can apply for the patent vouchers again. With a Patentvoucher, you can get a subsidy for expenses such as private consultancy, preliminary examinations or the Danish patent application fee. You can cover up to 75% of your costs, with a maximum grant of DKK 75,000 per year, while you are responsible for the remaining 25%.

A warm welcome to Thorbjørn Swanstrøm, who is new IP Counsel and European Trademark & Design Attorney at Larsen & Birkeholm. With more than 25 years of experience as a lawyer specializing in intellectual property law and related areas, including competition and marketing law, Thorbjørn brings with him a distinctive and in-depth expertise.

Are you a trademark consultant with a passion for working with SMEs and start-ups? At Larsen & Birkeholm, we are currently looking for a new colleague to join our trademark team in Copenhagen to help secure our clients' brands.

Are you a patent attorney who is passionate about working with SMEs and start-ups? In addition to a background in chemistry or biotech, do you have a broad technological curiosity? Then we hope you will consider applying for a position as a patent attorney here at Larsen & Birkeholm.

At Larsen & Birkeholm, we want to do something extra for startups at Danish educational institutions. Therefore, we offer a patent offer for startups at Danish educational institutions, including DTU, University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and a number of higher education programs.

As a patent agency with many small businesses and startups, it is a very promising development that the European Patent Office (EPO) is now introducing a discount scheme for many in our target group.

Funding is a topic that almost all startups have to deal with. DI - Confederation of Danish Industry and Heyfunding have therefore joined forces to create a tangible overview for the Danish startup scene, where you can get an overview and find good inspiration for the different avenues you can explore - depending on where you are in the startup phases.

A dialog search at the Danish Patent and Trademark Office is a cost-effective and thorough way to get expert help searching already published inventions. For this reason, we almost always recommend companies to start here. However, the Office is not allowed to advise on how the documents found affect your ability to obtain a patent. However, we offer to make this assessment for you at no cost.

We look forward to meeting entrepreneurs, start-ups and companies face to face again when this year's Hi Tech & Industry Scandinavia takes place in Herning.

External consultants are used everywhere in business. But who actually owns the rights if your external consultant creates an invention in the course of their work for you? The answer lies in the contract.

The Høker calculus is a valuation tool developed by Jan Rosenbom and the Danish investor network Keystones. One of the cornerstones of the model is the company's rights to the product or service they sell.

50 years ago today, two young patent examiners from the Danish Patent and Trademark Office founded Larsen & Birkeholm.