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Intellectual Property and Domains for Start-ups and Scaleups

By Joacim Lydén, Kristian Martinsson | Posted on May 22, 2020

Explores the essentials when it comes to IP and domain names for start-ups and scaleups. An expert panel focuses on practical advice and business tools available in terms of branding and trademarks, innovations and patents as well as digital assets like domain names. Hosted by value creation specialist Cathrin Johansson with expert panellists Kristian Martinsson and...

Tags: domains, inventions, IPR, patents, scaleups, startups, trademarks

Trend scouting at the world’s largest trade show

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on January 22, 2019

Joacim Lydén and Simon Markström share their insights from CES 2019 on the latest technologies being developed and the challenges that still remain   CES or the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the world’s largest trade show, attracting over 4,400 exhibitors from all over the world and has a total attendance of 182,000...

Tags: artificial intelligence, automotive, autonomous driving, data, IP, Patent, trade show

Can “Real World” IP Tools Effectively Protect Virtual Reality?

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on May 8, 2017

Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. The lines of distinction between a person’s real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. It was the...

Tags: 2D, 3D, Intellectual Property, IP, Virtual Reality, VR

The President-elect and Intellectual Property

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on December 12, 2016

As election night in the US evolved, the Democratic community slowly started to realise the probability, and later the certainty, that there would be a shift of political parties in the White House. Trying to assess how this transition of power will affect the world of IP is not an easy task. Policy documents that...

Tags: AIA, IP, patent law, United states, US

The value of design patents

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on October 18, 2016

It is a perfectly clear, crisp morning as I make my way from Washington DC’s Union Station, through a clean and perfectly trimmed Senate Park, to the white neoclassical palace that houses the United States Supreme Court. The wide pavement and massive stairs leading to the building’s entrance is filled with journalists, photographers and television...

Tags: awapatent, IP, Patent, Trademark, USA

Decision by the USPTO puts the spotlight on the “real party in interest”

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on July 1, 2014

One of the ways that companies in patent dense industries, such as consumer electronics, try to fend off claims from patent holders is by requesting assistance from patent risk management firms. Patent risk management firms generally assist their clients by acquiring patents, tracking litigation outcome, or by acting to remove questionable patents from the landscape....

Tags: patent risk management, USA, USPTO

Important judgement on business method patent in the United States

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on June 24, 2014

On 20 June 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down an important decision, Alice v. CLS Bank, clarifying the extent to which business methods can be patented. The earlier stages of the proceedings have been well covered in the media as this is one of relatively few times the Supreme Court has interpreted 35 U.S.C....

Tags: patents, Software, USPTO

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