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Freedrum: He bangs the drums

By AWA | Posted on May 22, 2018

They say necessity is the mother of invention. When August Bering’s young son wanted to learn how to play the drums, the entrepreneur came up with the easy-to-use (and silent) solution Freedrum. With a diverse background in music and computer programming, August is a trailblazer in different areas of innovation. “New ideas and projects have...

Tags: drum set, drums, entrepreneur, Freedrum, gyroscopic sensor, Intellectual Property, music, social media marketing

Antibodies vs. the EPO – What scope of protection?

By AWA | Posted on May 21, 2018

Antibodies are currently enjoying great attention and are, together with their derivations and combined applications, growing to occupy centre position in the therapeutics and diagnostics fields. Indeed, the possible industrial applications have increased many fold since the harvesting of the first monoclonal antibodies by researchers Ehrlich & Metchnikoff, which led to an effective syphilis treatment...

Tags: AIS, antibodies, EPO, US

StoryTourist: Where stories come to life

By AWA | Posted on March 28, 2018

Have you dreamed of stepping into the set of your favourite book and experiencing its fictional world through the eyes of the characters? With Malmö start-up Velodrom’s new app StoryTourist, that might actually come true Stepping into a new world Deriving from creative backgrounds in theatre and script writing, Johanna Forsman and Andreas Jansson founded...

Tags: app, books, copyright, literature, pokemon, reading, stories, story

AWA Litigation secures win for start-up client Integration Diagnostics Sweden AB in a patent infringement and invalidity case

By AWA | Posted on March 21, 2018

The Patent and Market Court in Stockholm recently issued a judgment in a patent dispute between Osstell AB and Integration Diagnostics. Osstell claimed that Integration Diagnostics’ instrument for contactless measurement of dental implant stability (with the somewhat amusing trademark “Penguin”) infringed one of its patents.   Integration Diagnostics denied infringement and also filed a counter-claim...

Kubo: The future of coding

By AWA | Posted on February 28, 2018

Award-winning start-up KUBO Robotics helps teach young children the concept of coding with their interactive robot. A student project When entrepreneurs Tommy Otzen and Daniel Lindegaard started their Master project in Learning and Experience Technologies at the University of Southern Denmark in 2014, they didn’t have any specific agenda nor goal – only to find...

Tags: children, coding, Denmark, education, Intellectual Property, Kids, kubo, learning, Patent

Olympic games well covered by Intellectual Property

By AWA | Posted on February 9, 2018

The Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, have just started. For two weeks athletes around the world will do their very best to represent their countries. But what about intellectual property at the games? The Olympic rings are well-known to almost everyone on this planet, i.e. the five interlocked rings with colours in blue,...

Tags: design, Intellectual Property, IOC, olympic games, PyeongChang, Trademark

XMReality: See it to believe it

By AWA | Posted on February 2, 2018

Over the past ten years, Linköping based XMReality has gone from a small research company to a Software-as-a-service enterprise by offering their customers a high tech augmented reality solution.  Through the eyes of an expert What do you do when the machine you are working with doesn’t work and you are alone? Don’t you wish...

Tags: augmented reality, Intellectual Property, Linköping, technology, XMReality

IP within IoT and the fourth industrial revolution

By AWA | Posted on December 15, 2017

According to a new study Patents and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), conducted by the EPO the number of filed patent applications that relate to IoT, i.e. smart connected objects, are increasing rapidly. Over the last three years the increase amounts to 54%. Together with Handelsblatt Research Institute, the EPO has identified almost 50 000 applications...

Tags: 4IR, EPO, fourth industrial revolution, IoT

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