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New EU copyright proposal to help musicians fight piracy

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 16, 2016

The EU executive branch is expected to propose a range of copyright reforms this week, including a legislative proposal intended to help musicians and their record labels fight piracy in the industry. For many years, the music industry has had a conflicted relationship with streaming services offering free music, such as YouTube. The new proposal...

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The Netherlands have ratified the UPCA

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 15, 2016

The Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs has just announced that the Netherlands has ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement. This means that the Netherlands joins the 10 states that have already ratified the UPCA agreement. Before the Unitary patent and the UPC can enter into force 13 ratifications will be needed, including the French, German...

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CEIPI exams

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 8, 2016

We are happy and proud to congratulate our European Patent Attorneys Fabian Edlund from Awapatent’s Gothenburg office and Lasse Henze and Mikkel Roed Trier from our Copenhagen office on successfully completing CEIPI’s (Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies) course on Patent Litigation in Europe. They now hold an official Litigation Certificate. Awapatent’s IP specialists are...

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Tesla still the World’s Most Innovative Company

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 5, 2016

Salesforce.com and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals follow as number two and three on the list. Half of the top 10 spots are occupied by biotechnical and life science companies following a number of important innovations in the industry. Investors expect “big things” for the future of biotechnology, quotes Forbes. Nine of the ten companies listed are US...

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Are you our new Learning & Development Specialist?

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 2, 2016

As our Learning & Development Specialist you will design learning and training activities to help us to reach our business objectives and become even more attractive as an employer. You will also be responsible for the alignment of the business, the efficiency of our teaching methods and performance of our Learning & Development function. Read...

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EU: Publishers could get compensation for online snippets

By AWA Editor | Posted on September 1, 2016

A legislative proposal from the European Union’s executive branch means publishers could seek remuneration from news services, such as Google news search, for listing snippets of their content. If the new EU-wide legislation is accepted, it will give publishers “legal certainty and bargaining power” against news aggregators using their content, according to the European Commission....

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