Intellectual Property

Hjort provides assistance with the protection, enforcement and licensing of intellectual property rights and provide strategic advice related to the protection and development of such rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, designs, domain names and trade secrets.

 The services we provide in this practice area include:

• The protection of intellectual property in connection with licensing, service provision, joint collaboration and employee agreements.
• Licensing of intellectual property rights in relation to cooperation agreements and transactions
• Clearance of intellectual property rights with collecting societies
• Marketing in relation to both consumers and competitors
• Trademark applications, patenting and other registration of intellectual property rights
• Research and development agreements (R&D)
• Dispute resolution and litigation relating to intellectual property rights violations

Our lawyers have prior experience from legislative work in the Government and as in house-lawyers in leading Norwegian IP-based businesses. We combine legal competence with business understanding to give our clients strategic advice on the handling of their intellectual property rights.

Hjort is especially well known for competence within dispute resolution.   We have practical experience not only with IP litigation within the ordinary courts, but also with the special dispute resolution and mediation bodies that handle intellectual property rights disputes.