DenK iP - Davy en Kris - Intellectual Property

Welcome to the website of DenK iP bvba.

DenK iP bvba is an independent patent office, headed by Kris Hertoghe and Davy Wauters. We provide services in different fields of intellectual property, mainly patents.

As can be recognised from our logo, we think about IP. We use our head for helping you protect your intellectual property. We provide day-to-day assistance to and administration of your IP portfolio, during which we put the dots on the i.

This site is intended to be a source of information for you, our existing and future clients. It is updated as new information comes to hand. Please feel free to visit us again soon.

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you would require more information.

The public proposal phase for the European Inventor Award 2011 is opened. Anyone can put forward inventions and inventors; you can put forward yourself or propose another inventor for the award.

Abstract ideas are not patentable. Some so-called “business methods” could be patented like any other method invention, depending upon the manner in which the method is claimed, and assuming all other factors for patentability exist (novelty, non-obvious, etc.).

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO has given an opinion with respect to G3/08, resulting in confirmation of the previously established caselaw regarding to patentability of computer programs under EPC. The referred questions have been found inadmissible.

The Mechelen office will be closed from 12 till 30 July. The Gent office can be contacted instead.

Ilse has given birth to a baby boy, Victor. Congratulations!

We welcome Isabel Van Renterghem. She will replace Ilse during her maternity leave.