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Directors Beware: New Swedish judgment regarding personal liability for patent infringement

By AWA | Posted on December 8, 2017

The Swedish Patent and Market Court (PMD) announced an interesting judgment concerning the Board of Directors’ personal liability for patent infringement in October this year. The company Power Tools sued the company Royex, its chairman and president for patent infringement of cartridges for cracking stones. PMD found that the product “Royex Generation II” constitutes patent...

Tags: board of directors, directors, Infringement, patents, personal liability, sweden

Re-registered domain names used for trademark infringements

By AWA | Posted on December 5, 2017

The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released a report based on phase two of a study concerning intellectual property infringements online. In the first phase, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the different methods used for such infringements. It was followed up by the second phase, a quantitative study, in which...

Tags: domain name, domains, e-commerce, e-shop, EUIPO, Infringement, online, report

FlexQube: Brick by brick

By AWA | Posted on November 27, 2017

Child’s play: Inspired by Lego, the founders of Gothenburg based FlexQube aim to make their customers best in the world at intralogistics with their flexible yet simple solution When working for a world leading manufacturer for construction equipment, Per Augustsson noticed that the material management was quite static. Welded solutions were used to aid the...

Tags: FlexQube, Intellectual Property, intralogistics, IP, lego, logistics, sweden, USA

Amra: Measuring body fat with a six-minute scan

By AWA | Posted on November 17, 2017

What happens to your body if you only eat food from McDonalds for a month? Inspired by Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me, the founders of Amra came up with a groundbreaking method of scanning body fat and muscles to prevent disease In 2010, Swedish PhDs Magnus Borga and Olof Dahlqvist Leinhard, developed a new body composition...

Tags: Amra, Body scanning, disease, Fat, health care, Morgan Spurlock, MRI, Muscles

SSL Certificate: Protect your website visitors and improve your Google ranking with https

By AWA | Posted on October 13, 2017

As of the end of October 2017, the web browser Google Chrome will start to mark http websites with forms, search boxes or any kind of input sections as ‘not secure’. If you still haven’t implemented SSL Certificate on your website, this is a great reason for you to make this a top priority. Read...

Tags: Google, Google Chrome, Hijacking, http, https, Phishing, SSL, SSL Certificate, websites

A virtual biopsy to diagnose cancer

By AWA | Posted on September 14, 2017

By measuring cell membrane permeability and cell shape with their new methods, Swedish research company CR Development wants to improve cancer diagnostics via MRI scans. Eureka Scientists Karin Bryskhe and Anna Stenstam were having coffee when their colleague Daniel Toppgaard came into the room reclaiming that he had found a way of measuring cell membrane...

Tags: cancer, cancer diagnostics, cancer treatment, CR Development, medtech, membrane permeability, MRI, patents

Fourteen countries have now ratified the UPC

By AWA | Posted on September 5, 2017

Despite the uncertain situation in the UK and Germany, other EU member states seem to continue to ratify the UPC agreement. The latest states to join those who have already ratified are Estonia and Lithuania, of which both deposited their instruments for ratification during August. The complete list can be found here. Before the new...

Tags: Brexit, EU, Germany, patents, ratification, UK, UPC

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