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Helping babies breathe
By AWA | Posted on June 2, 2017
After spending endless nights making prototypes in a basement, doctors Kjell Nilsson and Gunnar Moa finally solved the riddle on how to help prematurely born babies breathe. Over 30 years later, their innovation has saved the lives of thousands of children all around the world – and still continues to do so. Struggling to cope...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: babies, children, CPAP, Innovation, Intellectual Property, licencing, medtech, Neores, Patent
Sustainable development goals set the need for disruptive innovation and new leadership
By AWA | Posted on June 1, 2017
On 25 September 2015, countries adopted 17 sustainable development goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all in a historic UN summit. The goals are followed by an extensive list comprising of 169 targets to ensure the three core elements of sustainable development, i.e. economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection, are harmonised. These goals...
Filed under: Insights
Tags: SDG, UN, United Nations
Conditions for bad faith in Sweden
By Niclas Dahlberg | Posted on May 10, 2017
The Patent and Market Court has recently in a decision (case PMÄ 15622-16), dated 25 April 2017, ruled that knowledge of someone else’s prior use of a trademark alone does not suffice to constitute bad faith. A Swedish company applied for registration of the trademark “Lyckliga Gatan” for clothes in Class 25. The Opponent filed...
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Tags: Bad faith, sweden, trademarks
Can “Real World” IP Tools Effectively Protect Virtual Reality?
By Joacim Lydén | Posted on May 8, 2017
Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. The lines of distinction between a person’s real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. It was the...
Tags: 2D, 3D, Intellectual Property, IP, Virtual Reality, VR
Women supporting women in IP Law
By AWA | Posted on April 27, 2017
Outnumbered in a male dominated industry, the women in Intellectual Property Law are creating global networks to actively promote and help each other out – in work as well as in life. Carol Thorstad-Forsyth is a Partner at US law firm Fox Rothchild LLP. With a degree in the field of Electrical Engineering, she is...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: AIPLA, Asia, Denmark, Intellectual Property, IP, network, Promotion, Support
Will .Africa be the one digital space for the African continent?
By Marcus Glaad | Posted on April 13, 2017
With the goal of establishing ’Africa in One Space‘, dotAfrica aims to provide a secure and world-class technical infrastructure to leverage the continent’s socio-economic capacity and potential. “The dotAfrica registry will place special emphasis on securing the rights of intellectual property owners, Internet users and the broader African community.” Background The .africa TLD has a...
Tags: africa, domain, domain name, dotafrica
Damage liability for preliminary injunction
By AWA | Posted on April 4, 2017
New Scandinavian case law clarifies a patent or trademark owner’s liability to pay damages for a wrongfully issued preliminary injunction. Background In Intellectual Property (IP) litigation in the Scandinavian countries, IP owners often try to get so-called ‘preliminary injunctions’ issued against the accused infringer. If granted, a preliminary injunction will allow the IP owner to...
Tags: Denmark, IP, patents, preliminary injunction, sweden, trademarks
Can you not patent a beer?
By Anders Heebøll-Nielsen | Posted on March 31, 2017
On 15 March 2017, the coalition No Patents on Seeds issued a press release to stop patents on beer, which was cited by inter alia the journal Ingeniøren of the Danish Society of Engineers. But can you really not patent a beer? I will summarise the situation. In 1998, the EU Directive 98/44/EC on the...
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BEPS from an IP perspective, Part 2
By AWA | Posted on March 27, 2017
Part 2: Transfer Pricing documentation requirements From 1 April 2017, BEPS action 13 guidelines on transfer pricing (TP) documentation will be effective in Sweden. Action 13 is an effort to make MNEs global financial situation more transparent. It is a three-tiered based approach including a master file, local files and country by country reporting (CbCR)....
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Hedia makes life with diabetes easier
By AWA | Posted on March 23, 2017
By using personalised patient data, Danish startup entrepreneur and CEO Peter Lucas wants to help people with diabetes to live a normal life with his state-of-the art app Hedia. A real game changer If anybody knows what is like to live with diabetes, it is Peter. He was diagnosed in 2010 but his first-hand experience...
Tags: app, diabetes, entrepreneur, health, startup
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