Frank B. Dehn & Co.

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company_name = Frank B. Dehn & Co.
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foundation = 1920
location = London, Brighton, Oxford, Munich
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industry = Law
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homepage = [http://www.frankbdehn.com www.frankbdehn.com]

Frank B. Dehn & Co. is a United Kingdom firm of patent and trade mark attorneys, with offices in London, Brighton, Oxford and Munich. It was founded in 1920 by Frank Bernard Dehn.

The firm's published client list includes: Apple Corps, Ares-Serono Group, Boehringer Ingelheim, Borealis, ConocoPhilips, DuPont, GlaxoSmithKline, Honda, Kimberly-Clark, Medtronic, Otis Elevator Company, Playboy and Tetley. [cite web |url=http://www.frankbdehn.com/library/sel_comp.pdf |title=A selection of companies for whom we act |accessdate=2007-09-08 |format=pdf |publisher=Frank B. Dehn & Co.]

As of 2008, it is ranked in the top tier of the annual [http://www.legal500.com/ Legal 500] list of UK patent firms in London [cite web |url=http://www.legal500.com/c/london/tmt-technology-media-and-telecoms/patent-attorneys-london |title= "Patent attorneys London" |accessdate=2008-09-12 |format=html |publisher=Legal 500] and in the top tier of patent and trade mark firms in the regions. [cite web |url=http://www.legal500.com/c/london/tmt-technology-media-and-telecoms/patent-and-trade-mark-attorneys-the-regions |title= "Patent and trade mark attorneys The Regions" |accessdate=2008-09-12 |format=html |publisher=Legal 500]

As of 2006, it ranked as the second-largest firm in the UK by number of patent attorneys. [The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys. (2006). "List of Members and Students". ISBN 0-903932-24-5]

In 2005, Michael Butler, a partner at the firm, represented Neal Macrossan in his initial appeal hearing against a UK Patent Office decision not to allow Macrossan's patent application. The subsequent Court of Appeal judgment in "Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's Application", in which Mr Macrossan represented himself, informs the UK Intellectual Property Office's policy on patentable subject matter. ["Mr Macrossan was represented by an experienced patent agent, Mr Michael Butler." cite web |url=http://www.ipo.gov.uk/2006ewcaciv1371.pdf |title=2006 EWCA Civ 1371 |accessdate=2007-09-08 |format=pdf] ["Attorney firm Frank B Dehn & Co represented him in front of the Patent Office ..." cite web |url=http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1254150 |title="Applicants forced to rethink software patent strategies" (subscription content) |accessdate=2007-09-08 |format=html]

In 2002, three partners of the firm became the first UK patent attorneys to register as practising foreign attorneys before the German Chamber of IP Attorneys (Patentanwaltskammer). [cite web |url=http://www.managingip.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1326814 |title="Frank B Dehn scores German first" |accessdate=2007-09-08 |format=html |publisher=Managing Intellectual Property]

External links

* [http://www.frankbdehn.com/ Frank B. Dehn & Co. website]

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