News: Awards and Rankings

Awapatent wins MIP award “Sweden Prosecution Firm of the Year” again

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 9, 2018

Awapatent was announced winner for Prosecution Firm of the Year 2018 for Sweden at Managing Intellectual Property’s (MIP) award ceremony in London last night. This is the second consecutive year the firm wins the prestigious award. “I am proud to once again receive this acknowledgment from the industry as we continuously strive to develop ourselves...

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Ai-Leen Lim and Inga-Lill Andersson selected WIPR Leaders

By AWA Editor | Posted on February 14, 2018

WIPR (World IP Review Report) has recognised AWA Asia’s Ai-Leen Lim and Awapatent’s Inga-Lill Andersson as Leaders in their 2018 rankings. The results are based on nominations from industry peers. WIPR Leaders ranks the leading IP practitioners in the world. The handbook lists over 1,700 lawyers. For the full rankings, please visit WIPR’s website.

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Awapatent remains strong in WTR 2018 rankings

By AWA Editor | Posted on January 25, 2018

In the 2018 WTR (World Trademark Review) rankings, Awapatent and AWA Asia have gone from strength to strength. Awapatent as a group is recommended in the international listing joining 21 other carefully selected firms worldwide: “Awapatent has successfully positioned itself as a thoroughly modern international IP consultancy, with a strong presence in Northern Europe and...

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Fourteen countries have now ratified the UPC

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 20, 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...

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Revised timetable for the UPC

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 27, 2017

On 27 June, 2017 the Chairman of the preparatory committee, Mr. Alexander Ramsay issued a message through the UPC website. It can be red in full here. The recent development in some of the countries necessary for the UPC to be able to start, in particular with regards to Germany, has now lead to the...

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The 2017 UPC Christmas present

By AWA Editor | Posted on January 16, 2017

The preparatory committee of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has today, January 16, announced that the UPC may become operational in December 2017. The committee also announced that they expect the provisional application phase to start at the end of spring 2017, presumably in May. Last year the UPC had postponed the recruitment of UPC...

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UPC might start 2017 after all

By AWA Editor | Posted on November 28, 2016

Today, the UK minister for Intellectual Property announced that the UK government is proceeding with preparations to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signals-green-light-to-unified-patent-court-agreement). “Following the announcement today, the UK will continue with preparations for ratification over the coming months. It will be working with the Preparatory Committee to bring the Unified Patent Court (UPC)...

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