Practice Expertise
- Commercial Contracts
- Dispute Resolution
- IP Law
- Copyright
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Contracts
- Copyright
- Dispute Resolution
- IP Law
- IP transactions
- Life Science - Regulatory & IP
- Patent Law
- Trade secrets View More
WSG Practice Industries
Corporate & Business
Intellectual Property
Life Sciences
Technology
Crossborder Trade & Investment
Dispute Resolution
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WSG Leadership
- Life Sciences Group - Member
- Patent Law Group - Member
- WSG Coronavirus Task Force Group - Member
Profile
Mikkel is head of Plesner's regulatory Life Science group and he provides advice to a large number of clients on all regulatory issues regarding medicinal products, medical equipment, foodstuffs, dietary supplements etc and conducts legal proceedings against public authorities.
Mikkel also advises on IP and Life Science agreements such as license agreements, research and development agreements, clinical trial agreements, material transfer agreements etc.
- Eli Lilly - enforcement of patent rights for Alimta®
- Gilead - enforcement of supplementary protection certificate for Truvada®
- Eli Lilly - enforcement of patent rights for Cialis®
- Teva - enforcement of patent rights for Copaxone®
- Lundbeck - enforcement of trademark rights with respect to parallel import of medicinal products (repackaging carried out with reference to the Falsified Medicines Directive)
- Pfizer - enforcement of patent rights for Lyrica®
- Novartis - enforcement of patent rights for Diovan®
- Lundbeck - enforcement of patent rights for Escitalopram®
- Oticon - enforcement of patent rights for a hearing aid
- Mundipharma - enforcement of regulatory data protection
- University of Copenhagen - establishment of Microsoft Quantum Center
- Jens Møller Products ApS - enforcement of trademarks and violation of the Danish Marketing Practices Act
Bar Admissions
Danish Attorneys' committee for IP Law
Danish Association for the protection of Industrial Property
International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
Danish Competition Law SocietyÂ
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
Danish Association of European Law
International Bar Association (IBA)
European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
Education
2003 Admitted to the bar
2000 Master of Laws, University of Copenhagen
1999 LL.M., King's College London
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Contracts
- Copyright
- Dispute Resolution
- IP Law
- IP transactions
- Life Science - Regulatory & IP
- Patent Law
- Trade secrets
Professional Career
Professional Activities and Experience
Accolades
- 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 IP Star
- 2022 iam1000
- 2019 2020 2021 2022 legal 500
- 2022 Chambers Global
- 2021 iam1000
- 2021 Chambers Global
- 2020 iam1000
- 2020 Chambers Global
- 2020 WhosWho patents
- 2019 Chambers Global
- 2019 iam1000
- 2018 Chambers Global
- 2018 iam1000
- 2017 Chambers Global
- 2017 WhosWho patents
- 2017 iam1000
- 2016 Chambers Global
- 2016 WhosWho
- 2016 iam1000
- 2015 Chambers Global
- 2015 legal 500
- 2015 iam1000
- 2014 Chambers Europe
Articles
Amendment of the Rules on Affiliation and Financial Support for Healthcare Professionals
By Mikkel Vittrup, Michala Kragmann |March 2021The Danish Regions Propose to Establish a Treatment Council
By Mikkel Vittrup, Mette Hygum Clausen |December 2019Pilot Scheme for Risk Sharing in the Reimbursement System as Part of the Growth Plan for Life Science
By Mikkel Vittrup |July 2018
"The Life Sciences Review", Law Business Research, 2013 (co-author of the section "Denmark")
"Technology Transfer 2: Make the Contact – Get the Contract", Hovedland 2008, (co-author of the section "IP Primer – Contract Law and Licence agreements")
"Den nye EU-konkurrenceret i nordisk perspektiv" (The new EU competition law in a Nordic perspective), Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, 2005 (co-author of the section "Gruppefritagelsen for teknologioverførselsaftaler - overblik og anvendelse i praksis" (The block exemption for technology transfer agreements - overview and use in practice)
"Kollektiv dominans og regulering af oligopolitiske markeder" (Collective dominans and regulation of oliopolistic markets), Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen 2003 B.55
FAKTA IT-jura/IT law, Forlaget Thomson (co-author of chapters 5, 9 and 10)
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