We focus 100 percent on creating business opportunities for our clients. And just like our clients themselves, we are active in the global marketplace.
Founded in 1897, we bring 120 years of experience to our clients. With 190 IP professionals and over 350 employees across 21 offices in Belgium, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland, we are a premier IP firm with some of the most successful companies in the world choosing us as their strategic partner.
We operate by three core values: courage, openness, and passion. We dare to be different, make tough choices and blaze new trails. Our openness to new perspectives means great ideas will not be passed by – and with our razor-sharp specialist skills in law and technology focused solely on creating business opportunities for our clients, our team is nothing if not ambitious.
We are forever finding new ways to make our clients more successful.
Our mission, vision and promise
Our mission
Our expertise in Intellectual Property supports the companies of today in building the prosperity of tomorrow.Companies need a creative and flexible IP partner to grow and develop in a changing world. We support our clients to get the most out of their ideas through creating new and long-term business opportunities.
Our vision
We will be the first choice in IP for clients and dedicated people everywhere by developing the market – together.We should always be one step ahead and seen as the leading IP firm through combining intellectual property and business knowledge.
Our promise
We create Intellectual Prosperity.We support innovative companies not only by taking care of their intellectual property, but also by creating intellectual prosperity out of it.