USA and Japan have joined the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs. This means that designers will get easier access to design protection in two of the…
Awapatent nominated for Swedish IP firm of the year
Awapatent is one of the shortlisted IP firms in the Sweden category of the Global Awards by the publication Managing IP. The awards recognize outstanding IP work in the past…
Awapatent maintains high patent work rankings
In the latest edition of the IP publication Managing IP’s survey on patent firms, Awapatent’s high rankings from previous years remain unchanged, both in Sweden and Denmark. The leading IP…
Awapatent Launches Asian arm in Beijing and Hong Kong as AWA Asia
Awapatent’s Asian practice, branded AWA Asia will be managed by IP heavyweight Ai-Leen Lim, the former international partner and head of trademark portfolio management of Bird & Bird in Greater…
Awapatent remains at the top in WTR 1000
This year’s edition of the international directory World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals has recently been released. Awapatent Denmark is recommended in the silver category in…
Awapatent sponsors Zennström Green Mentorship Award
The Zennström Green Mentorship Award was created by Zennström Philanthropies to support individual cleantech startups as well shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs in Sweden working to tackle climate change and…
Norway joined the London agreement
On 1 January 2015, the London agreement entered into force in Norway. This means that it is no longer necessary to translate European patents in order to validate the patents…
European patents in Morocco from March 2015
Starting on 1 March 2015, anyone filing a European patent application will be able to request validation for Morocco. European applications and patents validated for Morocco will have the same…
Increasing number of patent filings to EPO
According to preliminary data from the European Patent Office (EPO), the number of patent filings received by the office last year increased by around 3% to more than 273 000….
Open innovation article by Awapatent attorney in NIR
Patrik Andersson, Associate at Awapatent, has published an article about how to manage IP in Open Innovation in the legal periodical Nordiskt Immateriellt Rättsskydd (NIR). The article is based on…