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Sweden’s Proposed Patents Act

By Louise Jonshammar | Posted on April 19, 2024

On 11 April 2024, the Swedish Council on Legislation was presented with a new Swedish Patents Act proposal. The initial Swedish Government Official Report dates from April 2015 and was the product of a two-and-a-half-year project that included many concerns regarding the Unitary Patent system. The suggested legislative changes from the 2015 report have already...

Tags: EPC, patents, Patents Act, sweden

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...

Tags: EU, Intellectual Property, IP, sweden, Trademark

Going West: AWA and Haug Exchange Programme

By AWA | Posted on June 21, 2018

AWA IP attorneys are crossing the pond to build relationships and work alongside top US IP firm Haug Partners LLP in Manhattan, NYC It has been a successful beginning for the budding exchange programme between the two IP law firms AWA and Haug Partners LLP. Following a pilot project and discussions involving European Patent Attorney...

Tags: AWA, Exchange Programme, Haug Partners LLP, IP law firms, Manhattan, NYC, sweden, US

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

FlexQube: Brick by brick

By AWA | Posted on November 27, 2017

Child’s play: Inspired by Lego, the founders of Gothenburg based FlexQube aim to make their customers best in the world at intralogistics with their flexible yet simple solution When working for a world leading manufacturer for construction equipment, Per Augustsson noticed that the material management was quite static. Welded solutions were used to aid the...

Tags: FlexQube, Intellectual Property, intralogistics, IP, lego, logistics, sweden, USA

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

Fertile grounds for patent applications

By Love Koči | Posted on March 31, 2015

According to a recently published survey by the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV), geographical areas where universities and large companies are present promote innovation, and consequently, also the number of filed patent applications. Some Swedish counties (e.g. Stockholm, Uppsala and Skåne) stand out in the PRV statistics of the number of national patent applications...

Tags: Innovation, PRV, sweden

Swedish supreme court: Trademark infringement is not a crime for which “the nature of the crime” motivates imprisonment

By AWA | Posted on October 24, 2014

It is rather well-known that a trademark infringement may result in claims for damages. On the other hand, the awareness is probably not as high about the risk for an individual to end up in jail for the very same violation. The extent to which the latter should happen was the question to be decided...

Tags: Supreme Court, sweden, trademark infringement

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