Christer Hällgren most recently worked for DeLaval, where he was Patent Manager. For several years Christer held different management roles at AstraZeneca, and was involved in their global patent disputes…
Increase of cybersquatting due to new top level domains
Last year, trademark owners filed 2,754 “cybersquatting” cases with WIPO, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year. Cybersquatting typically means the registration of a domain name with bad faith…
Awapatent remains at the top of Managing IP’s international rankings
In MIP’s international rankings “IP Stars 2016”, where top firms in over 70 jurisdictions are ranked for their patent work, Awapatent keeps the top positions from previous years in Sweden…
Swedish government initiates an IP drive
As a start of this drive the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications arranged a seminar in Stockholm on 23 March. People from innovative companies, authorities, organizations and universities…
AWA Asia in Asia Legal Business’ Innovative List
ALB or Asia Legal Business, is Thomson Reuters’ leading provider of legal news and regional market trends for legal practitioners in China, North & South East Asia, Japan, Australia and…
European patent applications continue to grow
The 2015 annual report of the European Patent Office (EPO) shows that 160 000 European patent applications were filed with the EPO last year. This is an increase with 4.8…
No fee for requesting opt-out
The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court has recently published a new suggestion regarding the fee for opting out, in which the fee will be 0 EUR, instead of…
Germany begins the journey into the Unitary Patent system
Finally the news broke that Germany has started the ratification of the Agreement on a unified patent court and thus the Unitary Patent, by the publication of two law proposals…
The IP Stars rankings: Denmark is climbing to the top
MIP’s annual IP Stars Rankings (former called “World IP Survey”) of leading trademark practitioners/firms for 2016 is out. In Denmark, Awapatent A/S has climbed to Tier 1 in the category…
IKEA loses its trademark in Indonesia
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has lost the rights to its own trademark in Indonesia. The Indonesian supreme court has ruled that the trademark belongs to the local rattan furniture company…