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…
Awapatent shares knowledge of designs in global guide
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…
Awapatent nominated for Managing IP’s Global Awards
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…
Number of new top-level domains now exceed 100
It may soon be possible to register domain names ending in .today, .shoes, .social, and .berlin. More than 100 new generic top-level domains have been given the green light by…
Google and Samsung partner on patents
Samsung and Google have signed a global partnership agreement on cross-licensing of patents. Under the terms of the agreement, both companies will have access to the other’s patent portfolios in…
Awapatent maintains high European patent rankings
In the latest edition of the IP magazine Managing IP’s patent survey, Awapatent maintains its’ high rankings from previous years, both in Sweden and Denmark. The leading firms of each…
Awapatent top-ranked in the latest WTR 1000
The fourth edition of the IP guide World Trademark Review 1000 – The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals has recently been published. Awapatent in Sweden is recommended in the gold band…
All-time-high for European patent applications
More patent applications than ever – 265,000 – were filed with the European Patent Office (EPO) last year. This is a 2.8 per cent increase on 2012, according to preliminary…
New Global Patent Prosecution Highway launched to simplify use
Using the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) for obtaining accelerated examination has become considerably simpler as 17 IP offices around the world has agreed on a Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH)…
EPO’s Patent Information News refers to Awapatent
In the latest issue of Patent Information News from the EPO, Marjolaine Thulin, Patent Information Specialist at Awapatent’s Stockholm office is referred to twice. The magazine writes about statistical analysis…