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XMReality: See it to believe it
By AWA | Posted on February 2, 2018
Over the past ten years, Linköping based XMReality has gone from a small research company to a Software-as-a-service enterprise by offering their customers a high tech augmented reality solution. Through the eyes of an expert What do you do when the machine you are working with doesn’t work and you are alone? Don’t you wish...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: augmented reality, Intellectual Property, Linköping, technology, XMReality
CRISPR patent revoked at the EPO
By Niklas Mattsson | Posted on January 31, 2018
The CRISPR system has revolutionised the gene technology field, opening up for a multitude of genetic engineering possibilities and harbouring huge potential for the treatment of diseases. In particular, one version of the system known as CRISPR/Cas9, has been modified to edit genomes. It is commonly called a “gene scissor”, i.e. it can cut a...
Filed under: Insights
On the point of re-examination of SPC term #3 – End of discussion?
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on January 31, 2018
Reflections on the Court of Justice of the European Union’s interpretation of Article 17.2 of the SPC Regulation As previously addressed in a Newsflash from Awapatent, and in two previous entries, the Swedish Patent and Market Appeal Court handed down eight decisions on 4 October 2017, in appeal cases regarding re-examination of SPC term. The...
IP within IoT and the fourth industrial revolution
By AWA | Posted on December 15, 2017
According to a new study Patents and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), conducted by the EPO the number of filed patent applications that relate to IoT, i.e. smart connected objects, are increasing rapidly. Over the last three years the increase amounts to 54%. Together with Handelsblatt Research Institute, the EPO has identified almost 50 000 applications...
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...
Filed under: Insights
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...
Filed under: Interviews
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
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...
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...
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