NLO Nederlandsch Octrooibureau

NLO delivers tailored, perspective-driven intellectual property advice, focusing on securing patents, managing trademark portfolios, and identifying innovative solutions. With over 135 years of excellence and instrumental in drafting the Netherlands' first patent act, we specialise in building long-term client relationships through personalised service. Our team of 90 patent and trademark attorneys across 7 offices, supported by a global network of IP experts, ensures comprehensive IP protection for clients worldwide. This global reach, combined with our commitment to customised support and innovative strategies, positions NLO as your trusted partner in enhancing and protecting intellectual assets, ready to advance your business in the intellectual property landscape. For Patents and Trademarks, NLO’s field-dedicated teams of attorneys and specialists are able to offer the following services: -support and advice on IP matters to Business or Scientific partners; -providing “Freedom-to-operate” advice regarding third-party IP rights, including opinions on risk management and strategies for risk mitigation using IP legal tools; -assisting in invention harvesting and providing patentability opinion, with advice on best chances of success vs. optimised investments thereby supporting business decision-making processes; -drafting and prosecuting patent applications in the Agri Food sector, with specific expertise in developing Case Law to best secure the innovation -providing IP-awareness and patent trainings, supporting, guiding and influencing EIT Food in establishing best practices to protect inventions, patents, trade marks and trade secrets -supporting and advising on establishing research cooperation contracts, non-disclosure agreements, licensing agreements, etc.