WIPO’s consortium for combating dangerous diseases – WIPO Re:Search – has now more than 100 participating organizations after the French research foundation Institut Pasteur recently became the 101st member. WIPO…
Awapatent is double-nominated in MIP’s Global Awards 2016
The list of IP firms nominated for “Managing IP Global Awards 2016” has just been released. Awapatent is proud to be nominated in two categories: “Sweden – IP firm of…
Awapatent is one of Team Rynkeby’s gold sponsors 2016
Team Rynkeby is an organization supporting leading child cancer charities in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Faroe Islands. They arrange a variety of fund-raising events, the largest one being…
United Kingdom moves closer to the Unified Patent Court
The UK government has published a draft Statutory Instrument (SI) and laid it before the Parliament. The changes moves the UK one step closer to the unitary patent and Unified…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…