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A virtual biopsy to diagnose cancer

By AWA | Posted on September 14, 2017

By measuring cell membrane permeability and cell shape with their new methods, Swedish research company CR Development wants to improve cancer diagnostics via MRI scans. Eureka Scientists Karin Bryskhe and Anna Stenstam were having coffee when their colleague Daniel Toppgaard came into the room reclaiming that he had found a way of measuring cell membrane...

Tags: cancer, cancer diagnostics, cancer treatment, CR Development, medtech, membrane permeability, MRI, patents

Fourteen countries have now ratified the UPC

By AWA | Posted on September 5, 2017

Despite the uncertain situation in the UK and Germany, other EU member states seem to continue to ratify the UPC agreement. The latest states to join those who have already ratified are Estonia and Lithuania, of which both deposited their instruments for ratification during August. The complete list can be found here. Before the new...

Tags: Brexit, EU, Germany, patents, ratification, UK, UPC

Damage liability for preliminary injunction

By AWA | Posted on April 4, 2017

New Scandinavian case law clarifies a patent or trademark owner’s liability to pay damages for a wrongfully issued preliminary injunction. Background In Intellectual Property (IP) litigation in the Scandinavian countries, IP owners often try to get so-called ‘preliminary injunctions’ issued against the accused infringer. If granted, a preliminary injunction will allow the IP owner to...

Tags: Denmark, IP, patents, preliminary injunction, sweden, trademarks

The inventor’s right to waive being mentioned – or Bene qui latuit bene vixit

By Troels Peter Rørdam | Posted on April 19, 2016

Roman poet Ovid stated the above latin quote in his work Tristia about 1000 years ago, and French philosopher René Descartes adopted it as his motto: He who has kept himself well hidden has lived well. But what if you have conceived an invention and you or your employer planning to patent it – is...

Tags: Alfred Nobel, anonymity, patents, Sia

Change on climate and fast-tracking green innovations

By AWA | Posted on December 2, 2015

A while ago I wrote a blog post about being profitable and still doing good things for the climate. I believe that there are many inventors out there who have found really cool and smart solutions to many of the problems of today, for instance how to provide electricity to poor and rural locations, how...

Tags: climate-change, Dechezleprêtre, fast-tracking, green innovations, patents, recycling

The 2014 World Cup from an IP perspective

By Love Koči | Posted on September 2, 2014

Football enthusiasts all over the world indulged in the fantastic spectacle of the World Cup in Brazil this summer, enjoying a large goal average (2.88 goals per group stage game), witnessing flabbergasting results (e.g. Spain vs. the Netherlands 1-5 and Brazil vs. Germany 1-7) and reading everything about the headline-making profiles such as Neymar, Suarez,...

Tags: Football, patents, world cup 2014

The life sciences patent maze – USA

By AWA | Posted on May 27, 2014

ON MARCH 4, 2014, the US Patent Office issued new guidelines on how to evaluate the patentability of inventions reciting or involving “laws of nature/natural principles, natural phenomena, and/or natural products”. Considering the fact that the first federal patent statute of the United States was established in 1790, one might be inclined to believe that...

Tags: life science, patents, USA, USPTO

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