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Patentwerk is a reliable partner for European patent prosecution and litigation

Patentwerk is a boutique firm focused on technology patents. We are experienced in prosecution, oppositions and appeals before the European Patent Office, as well as court proceedings in various European jurisdictions (especially the Netherlands and Germany) with a high success rate.

We stand for a pragmatic and personal approach. Our responsible patent attorneys and formalities officers have direct contact with our clients, which guarantees short lines of communication.


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Founded in 1998, we are a relative young organisation with an up to date organisation structure and down to earth approach. Patentwerk has a proven and audited management system meeting ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 qualifications.

Our extensive local network makes it possible to select the best fitting of other IP professionals on a case dependent basis.

Every year we attend various international meetings like INTA and APAA where we’d like to meet. We are always willing to develop reciprocity (when quality is guaranteed) due to an unbalance in outgoing and incoming work.

Patentwerk is listed in both IAM and Juve rankings.

The Netherlands

Patentwerk is located in The Netherlands, closely to the European Patent Office in The Hague (Rijswijk), where 40% of all the workload handled by the EPO is conducted. We’re only a 1,5 hours flight away from Munich where the rest of the EPO cases is handled. Informal interviews and oral proceedings are held ‘just around the corner’.

The Netherlands is part of the European Union, and form an international transport hub with the Rotterdam Harbour and Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. The country is an international business place, hosting many internationals.

We have a well-developed IP community and high quality patent attorneys (as you can see in the European Qualification Examination results). Our professionals speak and read English, German and French.

The Dutch patent proceedings are relatively cheap, fast and of high quality. Direct national (registration) patents in the Netherlands and Belgium can be filed, all in, for less than 2 K€. First instance infringement proceedings including debate on (in)validity, for a simple case, will cost typically 50 – 100 K€ all in, with a final decision in most cases within one year.

Patentwerk’s numbers

  • In more than 75% of the cases where we filed an opposition or defended a patent in an opposition, we achieved a positive result!
  • More than 85% of our European patent applications have been granted.
  • In 2019 we filed 254 patent applications in total.

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