If a third party infringes your patent in Norway, we can ask this party to cease his/her activities or alternatively negotiate a license agreement or even sell the patent, should you so desire.

If no agreement is made, we can file an infringement case. Our in-house attorneys-at-law are fully qualified to litigate such cases, but when necessary due to the complexity or scope of the infringement, we draw on resources from other reputable Norwegian law firms qualfied in IP law.

A party infringing a Norwegian patent is liable to pay compensation as of the day of the publication of the patent application or the day the party was aware of the application, whichever comes first. However, small companies are often “pardoned” for not keeping track of published applications, and in such cases, compensation is calculated as of grant.

Generally, compensations are fairly low. The compensation awarded for the period before grant, will be comparable to a normal license fee. The compensation awarded for the period after grant may however be larger than the infringer's profit, and there are examples of a one-man enterprise sending a much larger company into bankruptcy.

A petition for an interlocutory injunction may be filed as soon as the patentee becomes aware of the infringement, but it is normally required that he posts a financial guarantee to compensate the alleged infringer should the court conclude that no infringement had taken place.

Confer also invalidity suits & administrative patent restriction and oppositions & observations.