Bech-Bruun is well known in the market for its work across a range of industries including the auto, design and IT sectors, as well as handling municipality work. The team advises on a variety of matters including trade mark protection work and disputes, tech licensing issues, and advertising disputes. Claus Barrett Christiansen heads the group and represents clients before the Supreme Court, with significant experience in advertising standards cases and trade mark licensing work. Klaus Ewald Madsen, Sisse Langberg Lassen, Jeppe Brinck-Jensen, and Dan Bjerg Geary are all further names to note.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Bech-Bruun have a strong team of patent litigators who are really good to work with. They are collaborative and work well with other outside counsel teams.’
- ‘Jeppe Brinck-Jensen is a very good strategist. I particularly like Jeppe's calm, measured approach to litigation. He is unflappable and very sensible.'
- ‘Very professional, great business acumen and a great sense for detail in very complex matters.’
- ‘Open, honest and straight forward dialogue.’
- ‘The Bech-Bruun team has great market understanding and a broad team of highly profiled advisers. The approach is commercially oriented, focusing always on immediately usable advice rather than textbook answers.'
- ‘Dan Geary is a long-standing trusted adviser to our firm. Dan excels in delivering commercially useful advice. He displays an in-depth understanding of the industry. The quality of his advice is impeccable. He is among the best in the country for IP and licensing work, specifically in the renewable energy business. Year after year he delivers best-in-class on our projects.’
- ‘The team is extremely client oriented providing a high service level combined with a strong business understanding.’
- ‘Jeppe Brinck-Jensen combines strong technical and business understanding with practical and hands-on solutions that work for clients not being afraid of giving honest and clear direction.'
Key clients
- Aarhus Vand (Municipality of Aarhus)
- Philip Morris
- Eames Family Office
- Energinet
- Fertin Pharma
- Jaguar Land Rover
- KK Wind Solutions A/S
- Merck Sharpe & Dohme
- Novo Holdings
- The Lundbeck Foundation
- Nel Hydrogen AS
Work highlights
Representing Jaguar Land Rover against INEOS Automotive in litigation regarding the Jaguar Land Rover 3D Defender trade mark.
Representing the Eames Family Office, in multi-jurisdiction trade mark proceedings regrading rights to the EAMES name in the EU.
Assisting Cryptomathic in an ongoing patent dispute against French conglomerate IN Groupe, the Danish state’s digital agency and the Danish association of banks about digital signature and authentication technology.
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Practice head
Claus Barrett Christiansen
Other key lawyers
Klaus Ewald Madsen; Sisse Langberg Lassen; Jeppe Brinck-Jensen; Dan Bjerg Geary