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Five Awapatent consultants listed as top trademark lawyers

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 7, 2017

Ai-Leen Lim, Ann-Charlotte Järvinen, Martin Tranälv, Ulf Willquist and Mette Bender have been recognised as among the world’s top trademark lawyers by the legal industry publication Who’s Who Legal under the jurisdictions of China, Sweden and Denmark respectively. Since 1996, Who’s Who Legal has identified the world’s foremost legal practitioners in business law based upon...

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Hong Kong the world’s top competitive country

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 7, 2017

Hong Kong has been selected the world’s most competitive country for the second consecutive year. It is closely followed by Switzerland and Singapore in the annual ranking compiled by IMD World Competitiveness Center. The US came in fourth place, which is down from last year’s third place and the lowest position it has held in...

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Experienced attorneys rejoin Awapatent

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 31, 2017

We are very proud and happy to announce that three experienced attorneys have rejoined Awapatent after some years in other businesses. Malin Riis, Attorney at Law and Team Manager Legal, and Ann-Charlotte Järvinen, Attorney at Law and Partner, have started at our Stockholm office. Anneli Jönsson, European Patent Attorney and Team Manager Chemistry, has started...

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Oncopeptides wins SwedenBIO Award 2017

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 29, 2017

We are happy and proud to congratulate our client Oncopeptides for winning the prestigious SwedenBIO Award 2017. Oncopeptides has developed Ygalo, a drug for treating hematologic cancer. The SwedenBIO Award is awarded to companies in Life Science for their outstanding achievement. Awapatent IP team, headed by Tomas Lundquist, works in close collaboration with Oncopeptides, in...

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Ai-Leen Lim listed in Top 250 Women in IP 2017

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 29, 2017

We are very pleased to announce that Ai-Leen Lim, CEO and Principal Counsel of AWA Asia, has been selected as one of the Top 250 Women in IP in China for the second consecutive year in a row by the leading publication MIP (Managing Intellectual Property). Seven other women were recognised under the jurisdiction of...

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Nestlé loses Kitkat trademark battle

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 19, 2017

British Court of Appeal rules that Kitkat’s format cannot be trademarked as it has “no inherent distinctiveness”. After intense court proceedings to get the four finger shape of their chocolate bar Kitkat protected by trademark law, the court found that the format was no “badge of origin”. In late 2015, the European Court of Justice...

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GEN-PEP film wins Golden Egg Award

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 10, 2017

Being a proud supporting partner, Awapatent congratulates GEN-PEP and the one of the other supporting partners, the PR agency Forsman & Bodenfors, on winning one of the prestigious Golden Egg Awards for the production of GEN-PEP’s film Pep Talk. In the film Sir Stephen Hawking highlights the importance of combating child obesity and inactivity. GEN-PEP...

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New statistics suggest lack of competence is the greatest threat to innovation in Sweden

By AWA Editor | Posted on May 8, 2017

According to Awapatent’s Innovation Barometer, more than half (52%) of the asked IT/Telecom companies and over a quarter (27%) of MedTech/BioTech enterprises in Sweden find that the main obstacle for their continued innovation and research is finding qualified staff. The research also found that another major factor hindering innovation in Sweden is costs. Please find...

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