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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...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Amra, Body scanning, disease, Fat, health care, Morgan Spurlock, MRI, Muscles
Arc Aroma Pure: A high voltage solution
By AWA | Posted on November 6, 2017
A few twists of fate and a whole load of curiosity have taken ‘shitty little company’ Arc Aroma Pure from Lund to Shanghai – with a few pit stops along the way Soul-searching “Every five years I sit down to assess what I am doing with my life. I ask myself what I want to...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Arc Aroma Pure, biogas, high voltage pulses, IP, pasteurising, Patent, patents, start-up
On the point of re-examination of SPC term #2
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on October 25, 2017
Reflections on the Swedish Appeal Court’s reasoning regarding the balance of interests As previously addressed in a Newsflash from Awapatent, the Swedish Patent and Market Appeal Court handed down several decisions on 4 October 2017, in appeal cases regarding re-examination of SPC. This article is a sequel to the AWA Point published on Monday 23 October...
On the point of re-examination of SPC term #1
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on October 23, 2017
Reflections on the Swedish Appeal Court’s reasoning regarding Article 17.2 of the SPC Regulation As previously addressed in a Newsflash from Awapatent, the Swedish Patent and Market Appeal Court handed down several decisions on 4 October, 2017, in appeal cases regarding re-examination of SPC. Requests for re-examination, or appeals to granted SPCs, have been lodged...
New trademark legislation determines the conditions for creative brands
By Angela Boman | Posted on October 20, 2017
As of 1 October 2017, new rules for registration of EU trademarks apply. One significant change is the abolishment of the requirement of graphic representation of EU trademarks. In an EU application, the trademark reproduction in any suitable form using publicly available technology will be accepted as long as the EU trademark can be reproduced...
Tags: EU, graphical, IP, law, Legislation, Trademark, trademarks
EPO and Brazilian Patent Office launch new PPH agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 16, 2017
The ever expanding PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) network has once again gotten a new addition, and as always AWA Point sums up the new expansions and arising possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH agreement the PPH allows for requesting accelerated examination at the one office participating in this agreement based on the search results...
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
Mind the (fiber) gap
By AWA | Posted on October 3, 2017
One of the major causes of ill health and disease today is a lack of fiber in our diet, say founders of the Lund based company Carbiotix who want to help people “feel good” with their soluble dietary fiber. “Our focus is prevention; we simply want to make people feel good,” says Kristofer Cook CEO and...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Biotechnology, Carbiotix, Diet, Fiber, Fibers, health, Lund, start-up
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...
Filed under: Interviews
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...
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