Denmark: Intellectual Property

Companies invest heavily in visual identity, but without proper protection, that investment remains vulnerable. Design registration offers a practical approach to safeguarding product appearance by focusing on novelty and individual character, making it essential to consider protection early and align filing strategies with target markets.

The European Patent Office's Enlarged Board has fundamentally altered the landscape of prior art assessment, establishing that products made publicly available before a patent filing date constitute prior art regardless of whether they can be analyzed or reproduced. This landmark decision removes the long-standing reproducibility requirement, making market availability alone sufficient to destroy novelty and significantly raising the stakes for timely patent filings.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will, for the first time, assess how EU copyright law applies to large language models.