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Helping babies breathe

By AWA | Posted on June 2, 2017

After spending endless nights making prototypes in a basement, doctors Kjell Nilsson and Gunnar Moa finally solved the riddle on how to help prematurely born babies breathe. Over 30 years later, their innovation has saved the lives of thousands of children all around the world – and still continues to do so. Struggling to cope...

Tags: babies, children, CPAP, Innovation, Intellectual Property, licencing, medtech, Neores, Patent

EPO gets Stricter on Requirements for Recording Assignments

By AWA | Posted on October 24, 2016

The EPO is going to take a stricter approach for recording an assignment of EP applications. Up until now the EPO has accepted assignment documents evidencing a transfer that had only been signed by the Assignor. Recordal of assignment is governed by Article 72 EPC which states that “An assignment of a European patent application...

Tags: awapatent, EP application, EPO, Patent, patent application

European Patent Office: New PPH agreements on the way

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 20, 2016

The ever expanding Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) network keeps getting new additions, and as usual, the AWAPATENT IP Blog sums up the new expansions and arising possibilities. The PPH is a system of bilateral agreements allowing for requesting accelerated examination at one participating office. The system is based on the search results and a set...

Tags: awapatent, EPO, Patent, patent application, PPH

The value of design patents

By Joacim Lydén | Posted on October 18, 2016

It is a perfectly clear, crisp morning as I make my way from Washington DC’s Union Station, through a clean and perfectly trimmed Senate Park, to the white neoclassical palace that houses the United States Supreme Court. The wide pavement and massive stairs leading to the building’s entrance is filled with journalists, photographers and television...

Tags: awapatent, IP, Patent, Trademark, USA

Unified Patent Court – one step closer to opening the Court

By AWA | Posted on October 26, 2015

On October 1 2015, a Protocol to the UPC Agreement was signed by first seven member states . It is open for signing by the remaining Signatory States of the UPC Agreement from this date. The aim of the Protocol is to allow for some provisions of the UPC Agreement to be applied early, i.e....

Tags: European patents, Patent, SPC, Supplementary Protection Certificates, unified patent court, UPC

Can innovative clean tech companies save the world…and still be profitable?

By AWA | Posted on September 10, 2015

Well, as we all know, innovation and research and development usually cost a lot of money, and the simplest incentive for innovations is often to earn more, or alternatively to save, money. Facing the threat of global warming, i.e. climate change, many new ideas have developed to make us less dependent on fossil fuels, to...

Tags: Clean tech, global warming, IPR, Patent

The Indian Jungle – an IP perspective, part 2

By Michael Bech Sommer | Posted on March 10, 2015

To foreign applicants filing a patent application in India takes place “at the IPO”, but in reality there is a choice of venue which is not trivial. The Indian patent office (IPO) is headquartered at Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) with branches in Chennai (formerly Madras), New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The office of...

Tags: compulsory license, India, Patent

European patent validation in Morocco and Tunisia

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on October 31, 2014

Recently, the EPO has initiated work on a new interesting possibility for European patent applicants. Namely, the EPO has reported having signed an agreement with the Tunisian government on the validation of European patents for Tunisia. A similar agreement has previously, in 2013, been signed with the Moroccan government. According to the agreements, European patents...

Tags: EPC, EPO, Europe, Morocco, Patent, Tunisia

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