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AWA climbs to the very top in WTR 1000

Posted on January 18, 2016

The latest edition of the international directory World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals has just been released, and Awapatent/AWA Asia is recommended in the Danish, Swedish and Chinese rankings as well as in the overall international ranking. Awapatent as a group is recommended in the international ranking (consisting of 17 IP...

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The Unitary Patent moves one step closer

Posted on December 16, 2015

Yesterday on 15 December 2015 the Select Committee, which represents the EU member states participating in the Unitary Patent (UP), formalized a series of agreements (comprising implementing rules, budgetary and financial rules, level and distribution of renewal fees between EPO and the participating member states) into a complete secondary legal framework. This means that the EPO...

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Innovation Talent of the year

Posted on December 7, 2015

Mehrdad Mahdjoubis founded Orbital Systems in 2012 and Awapatent has been his IP support along the way. The company is a great success and Mehrdad has been awarded several times for his innovative business idea; a water and energy saving shower using nano-technology. Read more about Orbital Systems.

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Awapatent supports the Academy of Intellectual Property, Marketing and Competition Law (IMC) at Uppsala University

Posted on November 27, 2015

Awapatent highly appreciates this academic initiative to bring together researchers, practitioners, judges and others to exchange experiences from different perspectives. It is an excellent way of creating a natural link between research projects and practical exercise of the relevant laws. About IMC IMC is connected to the Faculty of Law at Uppsala University. IMC’s main...

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We welcome Anders back to Awapatent!

Posted on November 20, 2015

On 5 October Anders Fredriksson came back to Awapatent not only as European Patents Attorney but also as a new Team Manager for “Team ChemMech” at our Malmö office. Anders was recruited from Tetra Pak where he was working as a Patent Counsel. Anders is well-known within Awapatent, since he worked here as a Patent...

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Awapatent ranked as number nine in PCT survey

Posted on October 26, 2015

The industry magazine Managing IP’s annual ranking of the number of PCT applications filed has just been published. In the “EPO” category Awapatent is ranked number nine with 260 PCT applications filed. In the “Sweden” category the firm are ranked number one with 206 PCT applications filed. MIP does not report any country-specific statistics from...

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Next step in unifying the European patents

Posted on September 27, 2015

The Unitary Patent that is evolving for the European market has taken another step forward and Italy has initiated the process to join the UP as well. By doing this, Europe is now covering a market which is comparable to that of the United States counting the GDP. The Unitary Patent is a European patent...

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