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China’s president pledges stronger IP enforcement
By Ai-Leen Lim | Posted on May 4, 2021
China’s president Xi Jinping has reiterated the country’s commitment to strengthening intellectual property protection and enforcement through higher damages and criminalisation. The article was published by the official state-run press agency of the People’s Republic of China – Xinhua. It stresses that innovation is the primary driving force behind development and protecting intellectual property rights is equal to protecting...
Tags: awards, china, copyright, Intellectual Property, Patent, Trademark
China amends Guidelines for Patent Examination
By AWA | Posted on February 24, 2021
Following the fourth amendment to the PRC Patent Law by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress in October 2020, the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) initiated a comprehensive review of the Guidelines for Patent Examination (Examination Guidelines 2019). The Decision to Amend the Guidelines for Patent Examination (Examination Guidelines 2021) was issued by the...
Tags: china, CNIPA, Guidelines, Patent, PRC Patent Law, prosecution
Nobel prize awarded to Crispr-patent tussle party Charpentier and Doudna
By Joanna Applequist | Posted on October 7, 2020
The Nobel committee has announced that this year’s prize in Chemistry is awarded to Doudna and Charpentier for their groundbreaking research leading to the development of the Crispr-Cas 9 technology, often referred to as the gene scissors. The Crispr-Cas 9 technology was first published as a scientific paper in 2012 by Doudna and Charpentier. This...
Tags: Broad Institute, Crispr-Cas 9, Nobel, Patent, UC Berkley
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
Danish court rules on first case since 1925 which establishes indirect patent infringement
By Mette Parlev | Posted on March 29, 2019
The rule on indirect infringement has been part of The Patents Act in Denmark for over 40 years. During that time, the rule has rarely been cited and up till now the most recent instance from the Maritime and Commercial Court was a case between Etradan BS A/S and Abena A/S (Case No. T-8-10) from...
The Abraxis judgement – CJEU clarifies the scope of Neurim teaching is narrow
By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on March 21, 2019
Article 3d of the SPC-regulation, read in conjunction with Article 1b, must be interpreted as meaning that the marketing authorisation for a new formulation of an old active ingredient cannot be regarded as being the first marketing authorisation for that product, when the active ingredient has already been the subject of a marketing authorisation. The European Court of...
Tags: CJEU, formulation, marketing authorisation, Patent, SPC Regulation
Trend scouting at the world’s largest trade show
By Joacim Lydén | Posted on January 22, 2019
Joacim Lydén and Simon Markström share their insights from CES 2019 on the latest technologies being developed and the challenges that still remain CES or the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is the world’s largest trade show, attracting over 4,400 exhibitors from all over the world and has a total attendance of 182,000...
Tags: artificial intelligence, automotive, autonomous driving, data, IP, Patent, trade show
Kubo: The future of coding
By AWA | Posted on February 28, 2018
Award-winning start-up KUBO Robotics helps teach young children the concept of coding with their interactive robot. A student project When entrepreneurs Tommy Otzen and Daniel Lindegaard started their Master project in Learning and Experience Technologies at the University of Southern Denmark in 2014, they didn’t have any specific agenda nor goal – only to find...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: children, coding, Denmark, education, Intellectual Property, Kids, kubo, learning, Patent
Arc Aroma Pure: A high voltage solution
By AWA | Posted on November 6, 2017
A few twists of fate and a whole load of curiosity have taken ‘shitty little company’ Arc Aroma Pure from Lund to Shanghai – with a few pit stops along the way Soul-searching “Every five years I sit down to assess what I am doing with my life. I ask myself what I want to...
Filed under: Interviews
Tags: Arc Aroma Pure, biogas, high voltage pulses, IP, pasteurising, Patent, patents, start-up
EPO and Brazilian Patent Office launch new PPH agreement
By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 16, 2017
The ever expanding PPH (Patent Prosecution Highway) network has once again gotten a new addition, and as always AWA Point sums up the new expansions and arising possibilities. To recall, for a given PPH agreement the PPH allows for requesting accelerated examination at the one office participating in this agreement based on the search results...
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