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How blockchain can change how we view IP rights
By AWA | Posted on November 12, 2018
Blockchain has lately risen in popularity with uses such as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, and new applications are implemented or suggested almost daily. As an emerging technology with the possibility to validate, preserve and track digital data, and to provide a platform for low cost and transparent for transactions on a global scale, it has the...
Affibody molecule: A molecule that can detect breast cancer
By AWA | Posted on October 31, 2018
Every month is breast cancer awareness month for Swedish Biopharmaceutical R&D company Affibody, which has developed unique molecular technologies to localise cancerous tumours and individualise drug treatment for patients Director of Alliance and IP Management at Affibody Caroline Ekblad has been with the Solna based company since 2007. She started out working with research, but...
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Tags: Affibody, Albumod, biopharmaceuticals, breast cancer, cancer, diagnostics, Intellectual Property, molecules, patents
The Banksy stunt: The copyright holder’s right to shred the artwork
By AWA | Posted on October 25, 2018
I don’t think anyone has missed the extraordinary event at the Sotheby’s auction in London a couple of weeks ago, where the frame of the picture Girl with Balloon by the anonymous street artist known as Banksy contained a shredder, and the picture began shredding itself just after being sold for $1.4 million. This event...
Tags: art, Banksy, copyright, copyright law, Girl with balloon, london, Sotheby, United Kingdom
Bracing ourselves for a “no Brexit deal”?
By AWA | Posted on October 19, 2018
The point of no return, the date of jumping off the cliff, the end of the conveyor belt, or as we say in Swedish “a dear child has many names” – 29 March 2019 is now very quickly approaching. On 17 October, the EU27 leaders met at the European Council to discuss Brexit, and even...
Tags: 29 March 2019, Brexit, Britain, EU27, Europe, European Union, Intellectual Property, patents, RCD
Kwick: The electronic receipt solution
By AWA | Posted on October 16, 2018
If you have ever been on a business trip or made a company purchase, you probably know how tedious it can be having to keep and present stacks of paper receipts afterwards. Enters Kwick – receipt handling done electronically (and easily) Problem vs solution Like many great business ideas, the concept of Kwick started with...
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Tags: app, AWA, bank, credit card, electronical solutions, Kwick, patents, receipts
Science Park Jönköping: Where ideas turn into businesses
By AWA | Posted on September 4, 2018
Science Park Jönköping offers budding entrepreneurs business development opportunities and expert support along the way About 15 years ago, a few Jönköping students had a vision to capture the creative and entrepreneurial spirit of their peers. After receiving funding from the university, they started a creative centre which would be the start of Science Park Jönköping. When...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: business, company, entrepreneur, Jönköping Science Park, science park, start-up, startup
‘Soft Brexit’ provides for creation of comparable UK trademarks and designs
By AWA | Posted on August 23, 2018
Owners of existing EU trademarks (EUTM) and designs (RCD) had been left somewhat in the dark about what will happen to their intellectual property rights on 29 March 2019, but The UK Intellectual Property Office is now shedding some light on the situation. Existing EU trademarks and designs will, under the provision that the withdrawal...
Tags: Brexit, Britain, designs, EU, EUTM, Intellectual Property, RCD, trademarks, UK
Brenderup: An IP road of trials and errors
By AWA | Posted on August 17, 2018
When it comes to the question of investing in your intellectual property or not, trailer manufacturer Brenderup has experienced both sides of the coin. Dating back to the 1930s, Brenderup has a long and proud history. Swedish trailer manufacturer Fågelsta and Danish equivalent Brenderup joined forces after growing independently of each other and becoming members...
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Tags: AWA, Brenderup, design protection, infringment, Intellectual Property, IP, Jönköping, patents
Going West: AWA and Haug Exchange Programme
By AWA | Posted on June 21, 2018
AWA IP attorneys are crossing the pond to build relationships and work alongside top US IP firm Haug Partners LLP in Manhattan, NYC It has been a successful beginning for the budding exchange programme between the two IP law firms AWA and Haug Partners LLP. Following a pilot project and discussions involving European Patent Attorney...
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Tags: AWA, Exchange Programme, Haug Partners LLP, IP law firms, Manhattan, NYC, sweden, US
HitchSwitch: The name of the game
By AWA | Posted on June 5, 2018
Attorney by trade Jake Wolff trusted his gut feeling and quit his day job to start his own business helping newlyweds changing their name Deriving from New York City, Jake today lives in New Jersey with his wife and two kids. “It all started when I got married and my wife wanted to change her...
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Tags: AWA, change your name, Chinese Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, domain name, EU, Haug Partners LLP, hitchswitch, IP, marriage
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