General Information

Personal data

The Danish Patent and Trademark Office will only use any personal data, including name, address, e-mail address, which you have submitted to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office, in order to deliver your ordered services, for charging of payments etc., and for internal, statistical purposes.
 
For the purpose of our administration of cases related to intellectual property rights, a postal address must be submitted to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office.
 
If the case is published in the Danish Patent and Trademark Offices online data base, PVSonline, and in our gazettes, the postal address will also be published. It is therefore important, that you do not submit any confidential address, for instance if you address is registered as confidential in the central national register. As an alternative, you may sub-mit a PO Box or a c/o address.

Please contact us, if you have any questions regarding our handling of confidential postal addresses.

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Special conditions

Cases of business service (searches and analyses)

For further information, please see our Terms and Conditions for the services of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office.

PVSOnline database

The purpose of the PVSonline database is to provide access to Danish patents, trade-marks and designs. Read more about our PVSonline database.

Hotline on Enforcement and Counterfeiting

See the conditions for indicative statements as to whether an infringement of rights on the form of counterfeiting is committed in a specific case.
 

Handling of physical models etc.

Cases related to intellectual property rights:
 
As a starting point, all applications for intellectual property rights, which is submitted to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office, must include a written description and, if required, drawings and/or pictures.
 
If physical models etc. are submitted to the Danish Patent and Trademark Office by re-quest pursuant to the Order on Patents (Order No. 25 of January 18, 2013, on Patents and Supplementary Protection Certificates) article 35(3) or Order on Utility Models (Order No. 1605 of December 8, 2006, on the Examination and Other Processing of Utility Model Applications and Registered Utility Model) article 32, the Danish Patent and Trademark Office is liable for any damages to or loss of such models to the extent that an actual loss is sustained.