Intellectual Property
The Busines of IP – Understanding and Creating Value: Part 1 – Venture Capital
By Anders Isaksson | Posted on November 18, 2020
In this six-part series, Anders Isaksson explores some of the key 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 the long and short-term goals of a company. Whether you are a...
Tags: due dilligence, Intellectual Property, investors, IP, venture capital
Amendments to Hong Kong’s Trade Marks Ordinance paves the way for Madrid Protocol
By AWA | Posted on July 7, 2020
The Trade Marks (Amendment) Ordinance 2020 was gazetted on June 19, 2020. While the Amendment does not introduce any substantive changes to the underlying Hong Kong trademark laws, it does provide a basis in Hong Kong Law for the application of the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (Madrid...
Tags: Hong Kong, Intellectual Property, IP, Madrid Protocol, trademarks, WIPO
The invention causing a storm at music festivals this year – Lapee
By AWA | Posted on July 29, 2019
When people think of music festivals they think of bright lights, loud music, alcohol and crowds of people coming together. They rarely consider the practical aspects of using the toilet at these festivals. For women, the reality is a less than desirable situation with endless lines for portable toilets, but on the other hand men...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Denmark, entrepreneur, Intellectual Property, Patent, startup, Trademark
Sweden aligns Trademarks Act with EU regulations
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on January 16, 2019
On 7 November 2018 the Riksdag (supreme decision-making body of Sweden) voted in favour of modernising and simplifying the Trademarks Act. The changes came into effect on 1 January 2019. The motivation behind the amendments is to align Swedish trademark law more closely with that of other EU member states and is based on the...
ExThera Medical: Drug resistance
By AWA | Posted on November 19, 2018
Based in Martinez, California (US), ExThera Medical (ExThera) has developed a state-of-the-art device that filters harmful bacteria and viruses from patients’ blood in a dialysis-like circuit. This device, named Seraph, is proving to be a promising alternative for treating drug-resistant bloodstream diseases, which remain a significant health concern worldwide A serious blood problem Bacterial bloodstream...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: blood, bloodstream, exthera medical, Intellectual Property, patents, San Francisco, seraph, USA
How blockchain can change how we view IP rights
By AWA | Posted on November 12, 2018
Blockchain has lately risen in popularity with uses such as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, and new applications are implemented or suggested almost daily. As an emerging technology with the possibility to validate, preserve and track digital data, and to provide a platform for low cost and transparent for transactions on a global scale, it has the...
Affibody molecule: A molecule that can detect breast cancer
By AWA | Posted on October 31, 2018
Every month is breast cancer awareness month for Swedish Biopharmaceutical R&D company Affibody, which has developed unique molecular technologies to localise cancerous tumours and individualise drug treatment for patients Director of Alliance and IP Management at Affibody Caroline Ekblad has been with the Solna based company since 2007. She started out working with research, but...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Affibody, Albumod, biopharmaceuticals, breast cancer, cancer, diagnostics, Intellectual Property, molecules, patents
Bracing ourselves for a “no Brexit deal”?
By AWA | Posted on October 19, 2018
The point of no return, the date of jumping off the cliff, the end of the conveyor belt, or as we say in Swedish “a dear child has many names” – 29 March 2019 is now very quickly approaching. On 17 October, the EU27 leaders met at the European Council to discuss Brexit, and even...
Tags: 29 March 2019, Brexit, Britain, EU27, Europe, European Union, Intellectual Property, patents, RCD
China’s innovation rise – patent landscape review and outlook
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on October 18, 2018
For the first time in 11 years China broke into the world’s top 20 most innovative economies in the Global Innovation Index for 2018. The report – which was jointly published by Cornell University, INSEAD and the World Intellectual Property Organisation – annually ranks 126 economies based on 80 indicators. China’s number 17 ranking is...
Creating an effective FinTech IP strategy
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on October 10, 2018
AWA Asia’s IP strategy and patent team in Beijing looks at the China FinTech market, discusses available IP protection mechanisms and considers how revised guidelines could provide opportunities to protect technology in this rapidly developing sector What is FinTech? The term financial technology or FinTech refers to businesses that utilise technology to create financial services...
Tags: Asia, awa asia, Branding, china, copyright, design patents, fintech, Intellectual Property, managing ip
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