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Directors Beware: New Swedish judgment regarding personal liability for patent infringement
By AWA | Posted on December 8, 2017
The Swedish Patent and Market Court (PMD) announced an interesting judgment concerning the Board of Directors’ personal liability for patent infringement in October this year. The company Power Tools sued the company Royex, its chairman and president for patent infringement of cartridges for cracking stones. PMD found that the product “Royex Generation II” constitutes patent...
Tags: board of directors, directors, Infringement, patents, personal liability, sweden
Getting Personal in Sweden: Liability of Directors, Officers, and Owners for their Company’s IP Infringement
By Robin Berzelius | Posted on March 23, 2012
1. Introduction Picture a scenario where a plaintiff in an IP infringement case in Sweden has received a well earned final ruling in its favor, or perhaps gotten a preliminary injunction issued against an accused infringer. As the plaintiff is celebrating its success, it receives news that the infringer recently emptied its warehouses of infringing...
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