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Swedes nominated for European innovation prize
By AWA Editor | Posted on May 23, 2014
Swedish innovators is behind two out of fifteen nominations for the European Innovator Award, which is presented by the European Patent office (EPO). Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin are nominated in the class Small and medium-sized enterprises for their inflatable bike hemet. Ericsson-engineers Stefan Parkvall, Erik Dahlman, Muhammad Kazmi, Robert Baldemair, George Jöngren, Henning Wiemann,...
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Helén Osbacker – new team leader for Awapatent’s Team Legal in Region South
By AWA Editor | Posted on May 2, 2014
Today, on 2 May Helén Osbacker will start as a new team leader for Team Legal, Region South. The team consists in total of twelve attorneys at law and assistants in Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Helén has prior experience as a Corporate Legal Counsel from both law firms and companies. She started her carrier as...
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Samsung filed the most European patent applications
By AWA Editor | Posted on April 9, 2014
Demand for patent protection in Europe continues to grow, with more applications being filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) than ever – 266,000 in 2013, up from 258,000 in 2012. Applications came from countries around the world, led by the US (24% of the total), Japan (20%) and Germany (12%). As in the previous...
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Awapatent sponsors Excitera Innovation Challenge
By AWA Editor | Posted on April 2, 2014
This year Awapatent is one of the main sponsors of Excitera Innovation Challenge, an annual contest and event open to students at Swedish universities.The challenge in Excitera Innovation Challenge is to make marketable products of some research cases from different Swedish universities. The competition is arranged by KTH Innovation and Excitera, an entrepreneurship association at...
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Graphical user interfaces can be protected in China
By AWA Editor | Posted on March 26, 2014
From May 1, graphical user interfaces (GUI) will become eligible for design patent protection in China, following a revision of the examination guidelines by the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). However, designs which are unrelated to human-machine interaction or product function, such as wallpaper on an electronic screen, will remain unprotected under the revised examination...
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The Nordic countries remain strong in Global Innovation Index
By AWA Editor | Posted on March 6, 2014
The latest Global Innovation Index from EU has just been released. Just like last year Switzerland is ranked as no. 1 in the world and Sweden as no. 2, by a small margin before the UK. Denmark is ranked as no 9. Several parameters within Innovation input and Innovation output are combined to get the...
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Nordic/Baltic divisions in the Unified Patent Court
By AWA Editor | Posted on March 5, 2014
Yesterday the governments in Sweden and the three Baltic countries signed an agreement on a common regional division within the UPC system. The court will be placed in Stockholm and the language used will be English. In Denmark, the government has decided to establish a local Danish division of the Unified Patent Court, provided that...
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Awapatent maintains high rankings for trademark work
By AWA Editor | Posted on March 5, 2014
MIP – Managing Intellectual Property – recently released the annual trademark survey, where the leading trademark firms of 2014 are recommended and ranked. Just as last year, Awapatent scores high in the list in both Sweden and Denmark. In the ranking, the leading IP firms of each country are listed in up to four different...
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Awapatent shares knowledge of designs in global guide
By AWA Editor | Posted on February 26, 2014
Attorneys at Law Anita Gillior and Mette Bender have contributed with the Swedish and Danish chapters of Designs: A Global Guide 2014, supplement to World Trademark Review magazine. Read the Danish chapterRead the Swedish chapter
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Awapatent nominated for Managing IP’s Global Awards
By AWA Editor | Posted on February 11, 2014
Awapatent has been nominated in the “Sweden” category for this year’s edition of Managing IP Global Awards. The awards recognize outstanding IP work in the past twelve months and the final results will be presented in London on March 19. The winners are chosen by Managing IP based on the research for the World IP...
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