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Companies with IP generate at least 23.8% more revenue according to latest EU report
By AWA | Posted on February 5, 2025
The report ‘The Intellectual Property Rights and Firm Performance in the European Union’ was published last month and analyses intellectual property records by matching firms with their registered patents, trademarks, and designs from multiple authorities, including the European Patent Office (EPO), European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), and various national and regional IP offices within...
Tags: EPO, EUIPO, Intellectual Property, patents, SMEs, trademarks
EUIPO figures reveal that trademark infringement is an expensive business in Denmark
By AWA | Posted on January 20, 2020
The 2019 Status Report on IPR Infringement from the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) reveals that the annual sales lost due to counterfeiting in Denmark amount to €828 million. This represents 4.2% of the total sales in the 11 sectors covered by the report, which included cosmetics and personal care, clothing, footwear and accessories and pharmaceuticals....
Tags: cosmetics, counterfeits, Denmark, EUIPO, Infringement, personal care, Pharmaceuticals, trademarks
Denmark champions patents as fundamental to preventing climate change
By AWA | Posted on September 26, 2019
Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Simon Kollerup stated that protecting the intellectual property rights of innovative green companies is essential. Kollerup’s comments come as a Joint Report from the European Patent Office (EPO) and European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published on IPR-intensive industries and economic performance in the European Union. The...
Tags: CCMT, climate-change, Denmark, EPO, EUIPO, green innovations, green transition, patents
EPO and EUIPO study finds link between IPR and SME growth
By AWA | Posted on July 9, 2019
A recent study by EPO and EUIPO explores the relationship between prior IPR activities of SMEs and the likelihood of experiencing a high-growth period. The purpose of the research was to investigate the following questions: Can the filing of IP rights be used as a reliable predictor of the likelihood that an SME will experience...
Tags: designs, EPO, EUIPO, high-growth, IPR, patents, SMEs, trademarks
Case highlights difficulty in establishing use-based rights in Denmark under new Trademark Act
By AWA | Posted on June 3, 2019
The new Trademark Act came into force in Denmark at the start of 2019. Amendments to the act include an updated fee structure, a fast-track scheme and changes to the application date for renewals. The amendments came further to the EU Trademarks Directive (2015/2436), with member states having until 14 January 2019 to transpose the...
Tags: Denmark, EUIPO, geographical scope, local significance, maritime and commercial court, online exposure, trademark act, use-based IP rights
Re-registered domain names used for trademark infringements
By AWA | Posted on December 5, 2017
The European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has recently released a report based on phase two of a study concerning intellectual property infringements online. In the first phase, a qualitative study was conducted to investigate the different methods used for such infringements. It was followed up by the second phase, a quantitative study, in which...
Tags: domain name, domains, e-commerce, e-shop, EUIPO, Infringement, online, report
The consequences of Brexit are becoming clearer and clearer (sort of)
By AWA | Posted on June 30, 2017
Naturally, there are still many “ifs and buts”. We still don’t have any idea as to how hard or soft the impact of Brexit will be. This will not be clear until the end of the UK negotiations with the EU, each country within the EU and, frankly, the entire world. Trade agreements, and other...
Reform of the European Trademark System
By AWA | Posted on January 18, 2016
After some years work on aligning and improving the European trademark system a new legislative package on trademarks has finally been accepted by the EU Parliament at the end of 2015. The new Trademark Directive is already in force, but needs to be implemented as national legislation within the next three years. The further course...
Tags: Community Trade Mark, CTM, EU Intellectual Property Office, EU Trademark, EUIPO, European Trademark, EUTMR, Office for Harmonization of the Internal Market, OHIM
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