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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...
Filed under: Insights
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...
Filed under: Insights
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...
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...
The Danish robot and automation industry
By AWA | Posted on September 4, 2017
The Danish robot and automation industry has been growing rapidly. There has been a dramatic increase of the number of companies involved in robot technology in Denmark. From 2012 to 2017, the Danish robot and automation industry has experienced an astonishing growth rate of 200%; from 21 established companies in 2012 to 64 in 2017....
Tags: automation, Denmark, robot, robots
EPO and EAPO launch new PPH agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on August 10, 2017
The ever-expanding PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) network keeps getting new additions. As always, AWA Point sums up the latest 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 and a set of claims accepted...
Tags: agreement, agreements, Colombia, EAPO, EPO, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, PPH
The consequences of Brexit are becoming clearer and clearer (sort of)
By AWA | Posted on June 30, 2017
Naturally, there are still many “ifs and buts”. We still don’t have any idea as to how hard or soft the impact of Brexit will be. This will not be clear until the end of the UK negotiations with the EU, each country within the EU and, frankly, the entire world. Trade agreements, and other...
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