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ZLATAN, ROONEY and EURO 2012 – Protected as Trademarks
By AWA | Posted on June 20, 2012
EURO 2012 is indeed on-going and now it is time for the exiting quarter-finals. Huge investments have been made for the tournament and companies are using various branding strategies to become connected to EURO 2012. However, in these times it is more important than ever to discuss with your marketing departments how you are going...
Tags: brands, Community trademark, Football, trademark registrations
The Patent Prosecution Highway expands
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on May 31, 2012
I have previously written about the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement, which aims at easing the requirements for requesting patent examinations. The latest news is that the EPO (European Patent Office) entered the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement at the beginning of the year (29 January) and thus the PPH MOTTAINAI agreement has now been signed by a total of nine countries. With...
Awapatent at the 4th China IP Counsel Conference 2012
By Vibeke Warberg Rohde | Posted on May 25, 2012
On 22-23 May 2012 representatives from Awapatent participated in the 4th China IP Counsel Conference held in Shanghai. The program was very interesting with many different angles on IP, particularly on how to protect your IP in the best possible way. A representative from the Chinese Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) opened with a speech about the...
Tags: china, IP Counsel Conference, IP rights in China, Shanghai
High Court Decision Confirms Low Compensations to Inventors Employed to Invent
By Kim Garsdal Nielsen | Posted on May 16, 2012
Decisions are few when it comes to considering the inventor’s right to compensation in accordance with Section 8 of the Danish Act on Employee’s Inventions (Lov om arbejdstageres Opfindelser). Recently the High Court (Østre Landsret) has passed a decision in U.2012.420Ø, confirming that compensations to inventors employed to invent are low. In the case in...
The challenge of turning cities into successful brands
By AWA | Posted on April 16, 2012
From the legal point of view, geographical names don’t make ideal brands. Most trademark laws specifically exclude such names from protection. Everyone in a city has a justifiable interest in using the city’s name to tell the world where their products or services are produced. So it’s easy to see that building a brand based...
Tags: Branding, trademarks
India Grants the First Compulsory License
By Jeanette Jakobsson | Posted on March 30, 2012
The Compulsory License Application No. 1 of 2011, the first of its kind in the history of the Indian Patents Act 1970, concerns the anti-cancer drug Sorafenib, where the patentee is Bayer Corporation and the applicant for a compulsory license is Natco Pharma Limited. The anti-cancer drug Sorafenib, sold under the brand name NEXAVAR, is...
Getting Personal in Sweden: Liability of Directors, Officers, and Owners for their Company’s IP Infringement
By Robin Berzelius | Posted on March 23, 2012
1. Introduction Picture a scenario where a plaintiff in an IP infringement case in Sweden has received a well earned final ruling in its favor, or perhaps gotten a preliminary injunction issued against an accused infringer. As the plaintiff is celebrating its success, it receives news that the infringer recently emptied its warehouses of infringing...
New Patent Prosecution Highway Agreement between the DKPTO and Russias ROSPATENT enters into force
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on February 20, 2012
As mentioned in my previous blog entry dated 23 January 2012, the DKPTO announced that due to user demand efforts to establish a PPH-agreement with the Russian Patent Office had been initiated. Now, the efforts have matured into a PPH-agreement between DKPTO and ROSPATENT, which entered into force on 1 February 2012. Prosecution via the...
Which business methods are patentable in the US?
By AWA | Posted on February 9, 2012
When the Bilski decision was handed down by the US Supreme Court in 2010, it was taken as a clear indication that business methods would now be more difficult to patent in the US. After all, the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that the subject-matter at stake, a method for hedging risk, was abstract,...
Tags: business methods, Patent, US
EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal repeats obligation to raise objections in time
By AWA | Posted on February 1, 2012
Last week, the European Patent Office released two new decisions by the Enlarged Board of Appeal on petitions for review, R 2/11 and R 10/11. Both the underlying petitions were based on what the petitioners regarded as fundamental procedural defects before respective Boards of Appeal 3.2.04 and 3.2.03. Both cases are appeals from opposition proceedings. In R...
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