Insights
China’s innovation rise – patent landscape review and outlook
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on October 18, 2018
For the first time in 11 years China broke into the world’s top 20 most innovative economies in the Global Innovation Index for 2018. The report – which was jointly published by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organisation – annually ranks 126 economies based on 80 indicators. China’s number 17 ranking is...
Creating an effective FinTech IP strategy
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on October 10, 2018
AWA Asia’s IP strategy and patent team in Beijing looks at the China FinTech market, discusses available IP protection mechanisms and considers how revised guidelines could provide opportunities to protect technology in this rapidly developing sector What is FinTech? The term financial technology or FinTech refers to businesses that utilise technology to create financial services...
Tags: Asia, awa asia, Branding, china, copyright, design patents, fintech, Intellectual Property, managing ip
Adoption of the copyright directive in the digital single market – Should we be scared or delighted?
By Mette Parlev | Posted on September 25, 2018
On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament voted on the much debated copyright directive – and this time around it was adopted. With the massive amount of criticism, one question comes to mind; what is the fuss all about? According to the European Parliament’s own press release following the adoption of the directive, the most...
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Tags: copyright, EU, Internet, platforms, Reform, right holders
Denmark makes the IPR taskforce set down by the Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime permanent
By Mette Parlev | Posted on September 24, 2018
Since November 2017, all filings for criminal investigation regarding IPR crime in Denmark have on a trial basis been referred to a special IPR taskforce at the office of the Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic Crime, also known as SØIK. This trial arrangement has now been made permanent. This means that criminal cases regarding counterfeit...
Christiania Bikes – Not a generic term for cargo bikes
By Mette Parlev | Posted on September 13, 2018
New decision from the Maritime and Commercial High Court in Denmark The Copenhagen area of Christiania is well-known worldwide as a free town initiated by squatters, who back in 1971 occupied the area. This place was the cradle for the cargo bikes called “Christiania Bikes”. The first cargo bike was produced in 1984, and soon...
Tags: bikes, cargo bikes, Christiania bikes, Christiania Cykler, Denmark, Trademark
Rush to register French football star Mbappé’s name highlights China’s rampant trademark squatting problem
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on September 7, 2018
The 2018 FIFA World Cup ended with France being victorious and a new star player emerging among the winning team – young footballer Kylian Mbappé Following the 1 July match against Argentina, during which Mbappé scored two goals, a staggering 169 trademark applications were filed as several Chinese companies and individuals applied to trademark his name....
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Tags: china, FIFA, Football, Intellectual Property, Mbappé, trademarks, World Cup 2018
‘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...
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Tags: Brexit, Britain, designs, EU, EUTM, Intellectual Property, RCD, trademarks, UK
Louboutin trademark case: The red sole verdict
By Angela Boman | Posted on June 12, 2018
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) stated that a sign such as the Louboutin’s trademark is intended purely to show the positioning of the red colour covered by the registration and not consisting ‘exclusively‘of a shape (Case No. C-163/16) The French shoe designer Christian Louboutin is defending its BENELUX trademark registration...
Tags: Christian Louboutin, design, Infringement, Louboutin, Netherlands, red sole, red soles, ruling, shoe designer
A new exemption from supplementary protection certificates (SPC) in the EU
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on May 30, 2018
Some thoughts on the EU Commission proposal for manufacturing waivers to restrict SPC protection On 28 May, 2018, the European Commission published its proposal to amend Regulation (EC) No 469/2009 concerning supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products. Urged by the European Parliament, the Commission introduces a so-called manufacturing exemption for export purposes, also known as...
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
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