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Another senior European Patent Attorney joins Awapatent’s Uppsala office

By AWA Editor | Posted on April 6, 2016

Christer Hällgren most recently worked for DeLaval, where he was Patent Manager. For several years Christer held different management roles at AstraZeneca, and was involved in their global patent disputes on major products like Losec and Nexium. ”I am both happy and proud that Awapatent has succeed in recruiting such an experienced and respected patent...

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Increase of cybersquatting due to new top level domains

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 30, 2016

Last year, trademark owners filed 2,754 “cybersquatting” cases with WIPO, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year. Cybersquatting typically means the registration of a domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The cases filed under WIPO’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP)...

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Swedish government initiates an IP drive

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 24, 2016

As a start of this drive the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications arranged a seminar in Stockholm on 23 March. People from innovative companies, authorities, organizations and universities were invited to speak and debate. One of the participating innovators was Awapatent’s successful client Mehrdad Mahdjoubi from Orbital Systems.

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AWA Asia in Asia Legal Business’ Innovative List

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 23, 2016

ALB or Asia Legal Business, is Thomson Reuters’ leading provider of legal news and regional market trends for legal practitioners in China, North & South East Asia, Japan, Australia and the Middle East. In the publication’s Innovative List, naming 10 firms across the Asian region, we see how our offices in Beijing and Hong Kong...

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European patent applications continue to grow

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 9, 2016

The 2015 annual report of the European Patent Office (EPO) shows that 160 000 European patent applications were filed with the EPO last year. This is an increase with 4.8 percent. The growth came mainly from companies in the US and China, while applications originating from the 38 EPO member states remained almost unchanged. The...

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No fee for requesting opt-out

By AWA Editor | Posted on March 1, 2016

The Preparatory Committee of the Unified Patent Court has recently published a new suggestion regarding the fee for opting out, in which the fee will be 0 EUR, instead of the previous suggestion of 80 EUR. The fee for requesting opt-out has been discussed for a while, and consultation responses have indicated that the fee...

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The IP Stars rankings: Denmark is climbing to the top

By AWA Editor | Posted on February 16, 2016

MIP’s annual IP Stars Rankings (former called “World IP Survey”) of leading trademark practitioners/firms for 2016 is out. In Denmark, Awapatent A/S has climbed to Tier 1 in the category “Trademark prosecution” and is still in Tier 3 in the category “Trademark contentious”. In Sweden, Awapatent AB is still in Tier 1 in the category...

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IKEA loses its trademark in Indonesia

By AWA Editor | Posted on February 12, 2016

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has lost the rights to its own trademark in Indonesia. The Indonesian supreme court has ruled that the trademark belongs to the local rattan furniture company PT Ratania Khatulistiwa. In 2013, the Indonesian company registered the trademark IKEA – an acronym for Intan Khatulistiwa Esa Abadi, which refers to the rattan...

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