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The Business of IP – Understanding and Creating Value: Part 4 – Spin-Offs
By Anders Isaksson | Posted on July 27, 2021
In this six-part series, Anders Isaksson explores some of the critical factors and motivators for why companies, small or large, should obtain intellectual property. The aim is to help you understand when and how you can create value from IP, especially when considering a company’s long and short-term goals. In the previous article in this...
Tags: design, Intellectual Property, patents, spin-off, trademarks
Louboutin trademark case: The red sole verdict
By Angela Boman | Posted on June 12, 2018
Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) stated that a sign such as the Louboutin’s trademark is intended purely to show the positioning of the red colour covered by the registration and not consisting ‘exclusively‘of a shape (Case No. C-163/16) The French shoe designer Christian Louboutin is defending its BENELUX trademark registration...
Tags: Christian Louboutin, design, Infringement, Louboutin, Netherlands, red sole, red soles, ruling, shoe designer
Olympic games well covered by Intellectual Property
By AWA | Posted on February 9, 2018
The Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, have just started. For two weeks athletes around the world will do their very best to represent their countries. But what about intellectual property at the games? The Olympic rings are well-known to almost everyone on this planet, i.e. the five interlocked rings with colours in blue,...
Tags: design, Intellectual Property, IOC, olympic games, PyeongChang, Trademark
Is your supplier really cheap or just a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
By Ole Bokinge | Posted on August 19, 2009
It is well known that many companies, for cost reasons, choose to manufacture and buy products in low-cost countries, such as China. The possibility of manufacturing in low-cost countries is now being offered widely to Swedish companies through agents. These agents are often Swedes, who themselves have worked in production, procurement and logistics in such...
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