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SwapKids: The app for divorced parents (and their kids)
By AWA | Posted on June 27, 2017
Going through a divorce is never easy. Adding kids to the equation makes everything even harder. Danish start-up entrepreneurs Mikkel Eskesen and Søren Christiansen want to simplify communication between divorcees and put the children first with their app SwapKids. “It is hard to communicate with somebody you might not want to talk to. SwapKids offers...
Tags: app, children, Danish, Denmark, Divorced, entrepreneur, Kids, Parenting, Parents
COVFEFE anyone?
By AWA | Posted on June 5, 2017
On 30 May, Donald Trump tweeted “Despite the constant negative press covfefe” and he started a world-wide buzz of speculations of the meaning of this slightly confusing word. Soon thereafter, Per Holknekt, the founder of the Swedish clothing company Odd Molly International AB, claimed to have the right to the trademark COVFEFE and explained his...
Filed under: Insights
Tags: COVFEFE, Donald Trump, trademarks
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...
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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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