Mission

We are an Intellectual Property department that you can hire  – we assist organisations in using Intellectual Property to ensure more competitive R&D, and to create and harvest long term values.

Leogriff is not a patent bureau or a traditional IP-firm. Patent bureaus and attorneys are traditionally focused on the legal and practical issues related to IPR.

Our primary focus is on how strategic management of intellectual property can improve and strengthen business development. We work proactively with our clients to help them develop their business, their projects and intellectual assets.

We also help clients to improve and develop internal work processes related to intellectual property.

As experienced patent attorneys we provide all services related to IPR management, such as filing patents and trademarks, securing designs, copyrights and know-how. We cooperate with patent attorneys and lawyers worldwide. We will help our clients find the best patent attorney for their particular project if required, or work with the client's preferred legal advisors.

Clients and references

We work for a number of corporations, research institutes and SME's. Due to confidentiality agreements we cannot publicly disclose the name of many clients or details of our assignments.  If you wish references, we will provide you with contact information.

 Two examples are:

• IFE - the Norwegian Institute for Energy Technology 
• Norsk Tipping - the Norwegian State Lottery

Offices

Leogriff is located with offices in Oslo, Norway and Wislikofen, Switzerland.

Owners

Leogriff was founded in 2002. The main owners are Haakon Thue Lie and Axel Moulin, jointly holding around 2/3 of the shares throuh their holding companies. Campus Kjeller AS holds approximately 12%. Other minority shareholders are the holding companises of Katarina Lundblad Pinnekamp, Espen Christensen and Jeanette Gjestvang and Tom Ekeberg. 

Why the name "Leogriff"

The Leogriff is a mythological creature, half-lion and half-eagle.

• Leogriffs often were finding and guarding treasures.
• The Leogriff combines the strength and solid base of the lion with the sharpness and speed of the eagle.

To us, the leogriff symbolizes business based on the strength and solid base of well-managed Intellectual Property, with the aggression and speed of the strategy it supports:

The Greek myths, Herodotus and Pliny's Natural History all said the leogriffs lived in the mountains of the high north, among the Hyperboreans. Leogriffs find gold with the eagle's vision, and protect it with the lion's strength.

The historical sources are unclear about the colour of the Leogriffs; the choice of a prosperous green is ours.