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  • Awards and Rankings

    Finland has joined the Unified Patent Court

    Finland has now fully ratified the ’Agreement on a Unified Patent Court’ by depositing its instrument of ratification. By ratifying the agreement it will be possible for an applicant to…

  • Firm News

    Awapatent continues supporting SOS Children’s Villages

    Our yearly donation to SOS Children’s Villages is 100 000 SEK and goes to the family programs in Dassa-Zoumé in Benin. About 225 children get education, health care, food and psychological…

  • WIPO: Continued growth for patent and trademark applications

    According to the 2015 edition of the World Intellectual Property Indicators report, published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the number of patent and trademark applications filed around the…

  • Ericsson and Apple agree on patent ceasefire

    Technology companies Ericsson and Apple have agreed to end all ongoing patent-infringement litigation between the companies. The deal includes a global cross license for patented standard-essential technologies and for other…

  • Firm News

    AWA climbs to the very top in WTR 1000

    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…

  • Counterfeit games and toys cause job losses in the EU

    A new report from the European Observatory on infringements of Intellectual Property Rights estimates that legitimate industry loses approximately 1.4 billion euros of revenue annually due to counterfeit games and…

  • Innovations barometer 2016

    Swedish companies will invest more in innovation and patents during 2016, according to interviews with 100 R&D managers. This is reported in Awapatent’s yearly Innovation barometer which is referred to…

  • Trademark reform package good news for trademark owners

    Increased legal certainty and clarity at reduced fee levels are some of the effects of the trademark reform package which was approved by the European Parliament last week. The package…

  • Awards and Rankings

    The Unitary Patent moves one step closer

    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…

  • Hextronic – another successful Awapatent client listed on Nasdaq Stockholm

    Hexatronic (or Hexatronic Cables & Interconnect Systems, as the full name is) is based in Sweden and develops, manufactures, markets and provides solutions within the fiber optic cable infrastructure for…