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Awapatent – 120 Years of Excellence

By AWA Editor | Posted on August 30, 2017

Awapatent’s story began in 1897 with Swedish graduate engineer Anders Wilhelm Anderson (whose initials became the ‘AWA’ in Awapatent) and his understanding of the importance of patents for the industrialised Europe. Innovations were transforming the continent and Anderson quickly realised that patents would become a key business tool. Since then, a remarkable 120 years have...

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AWA Asia launches patent practice in China

By AWA Editor | Posted on August 28, 2017

The Asian arm of leading European intellectual property firm Awapatent, AWA Asia, continues its expansion by extending the 120-year-old firm’s formidable patent practice to China. Having established its now award-winning brand management practice in February 2015 with the launch of AWA Asia in Hong Kong and Beijing, the firm is responding to clients’ increasingly regular...

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See you at Nordic Life Science Days 2017!

By AWA Editor | Posted on August 28, 2017

On 12-14 September, Nordic Life Science Days will be held in Malmö, Sweden. NLS is the largest Life Science conference in the Nordic countries and, naturally, Awapatent will be there too. We have representatives from several of our offices. We look forward to seeing you there! Attending consultants are: Christer Hällgren, European Patent Attourney, Uppsala...

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Startups drop IP according to startup survey

By AWA Editor | Posted on July 5, 2017

During the spring, Awapatent has interviewed 40 startups in the life science and IT sectors at Sweden’s 10 biggest incubators about the protection of their ideas and innovations. It turned out that 55‒60% of the entrepreneurs in the survey do not have any protection at all. And the same amount also say that they do...

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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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Pandora second strongest Danish trademark

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 21, 2017

We are proud to congratulate our client Pandora for being ranked the second strongest trademark in Denmark by Brand Finance. The ranking is based on the so-called brand equity which relates to the confidence, trust and image associated with the trademark. Number one on the list is Lego, which also tops the international list. For...

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Global Innovation Index: Netherlands now in top 3

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 16, 2017

For the seventh consecutive year, Switzerland is ranked the World’s Most Innovative Country in WIPO’s Global Innovation Index 2017. It is followed by Sweden in second place and the Netherlands in third. Ireland and Finland down in comparison to the 2016 rankings whereas Netherlands and Denmark have moved up the list. The same ten countries...

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From AWA Asia: Ai-Leen Lim published in various outlets

By AWA Editor | Posted on June 13, 2017

Principal Counsel and CEO for AWA Asia Ai-Leen Lim has recently been published on different topics in In-House Community, WTR (World Trademark Review) and DCBF (Danish-Chinese Business Forum). To read the full articles, please click on the links before. Please note that WTR is available for paying subscribers only. In-House Community: “The New IP and...

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