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Decision on calculation of SPC-term in favour of Pharmaceutical companies where every day counts
By AWA Editor | Posted on October 9, 2015
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has confirmed the Advocate General’s Opinion Case C-471/14Seattle Genetics Inc. Read the whole article here
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New report on the “3-for-1” approach in the world of trademarks
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 25, 2015
The Intellectual Property Office of the United Kingdom (The UK IPO) has published the report “Cluttering and Non-Use of Trade Marks in Europe”, which brings up the issue of too many trademarks being registered and not used. The UK’s IPO was keen to better understand the extent of cluttering within the UK and European register,...
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Pharmaceutical companies in the EU are dependent on a right SPC term – Every day counts
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 23, 2015
On 15 October 2014 two questions were referred to the CJEU on a preliminary ruling regarding a SPC regulation; Is the date for the first Marketing Authorisation (MA) which is used to determine the SPC term for medicinal products determined according to Community law or under national law? And if determined under Community law, is...
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Global Innovation Index 2015: Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Netherlands, USA are Leaders
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 18, 2015
Sweden is together with Switzerland, Great Britain, Holland and the USA still among the five most innovative countries, according to the Global Innovation Index 2015.The index is based on 79 different indicators measuring countries’ capacity for innovation and measurable results. Sweden kept their third place from last year with Switzerland still at first place and...
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Sweden is keeping its position among the world’s most innovative nations
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 18, 2015
The index is based on 79 various indicators which measure the nations innovative capacity. As a whole, the group of top 25 performers – all high income economies – remains largely unchanged from past editions, illustrating that it is hard for the others to challenge the leaders’ performance. Even when it comes to innovational quality,...
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We congratulate our client AMRA on winning the Nordic Stars Award
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 18, 2015
AMRA has developed the cloud based service “AMRA Profiler Research”, which assesses fat and muscle measurements from magnetic resonance (MR) images. AMRA has recently entered into a unique international collaboration with Pfizer Inc. to investigate the relationship between fat and muscle distribution in the body and metabolic health to map how this affects the risk...
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We are looking for an attorney at law to Stockholm, Sweden
By AWA Editor | Posted on September 3, 2015
Read more about the position and apply here. http://www.awapatent.com/sv/karriar/lediga-tjanster/
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EU businesses lose 26 billion euro every year on fake clothes
By AWA Editor | Posted on August 19, 2015
A new study from the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) shows that sales of fake clothes, shoes and accessories in the EU take over 26 billion euro yearly from legitimate EU businesses. This translates into 363,000 fewer jobs since the legitimate producers and retailers earn and sell less, and thus employ fewer...
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Women in IP Global Event
By AWA Editor | Posted on August 17, 2015
Earlier this year, AIPLA organized the 2015 Women in IP Global Networking Event. Both Awapatent and AWA Asia participated. Please read more about a number of the events around the globe in the special edition newsletter from AIPLA (PDF document, 5.1 MB).
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IP-owning companies perform better
By AWA Editor | Posted on June 22, 2015
According to a new report, businesses that own IP rights generate more revenue per employee, have more employees and pay higher salaries than those that do not. The study is presented by the Observatory on Infringements of IP rights. The study found that IP owners had an average revenue per employee of 290,000 euro per...
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