On 16 October 2013 Tunisia acceded to the international cooperation agreement on trademark registration that is commonly known as the Madrid System and is administered by the World Intellectual Property…
Swedish purchasers of IP services choose Awapatent
Awapatent, together with the law firms Lindahl and Delphi, is the most preferred supplier of intellectual property services in Sweden. This is shown in the Klientbarometern survey, which is based…
Awapatent attorney nominated for alumni award
Helena Ribbefors, Attorney at Law in Awapatent’s Gothenburg office, has been nominated for the title “Young Law Alumnus of the Year 2013” by the School of Business, Economics and Law…
Anette Rasmussen elected vice-chair of ECTA Committee
Anette Rasmussen, Attorney at Law at Awapatent and Managing Partner for Awa Law Advokater in Copenhagen, has been elected vice-chair for the OHIM-Link Committee in ECTA. This policy-making committee is…
Awapatent’s Innovation Barometer shows: Swedish and Danish companies continue to invest in R&D
89 per cent of the R&D managers in Sweden and Denmark believe that they will have an unchanged or increased budget for R&D in the nearest future compared to last…
Relaxed requirements for divisional European patent applications
The deadline for filing divisional European patent applications will be amended 1 April 2014. It will again be possible to file divisional European applications as long as the parent application…
Prison for trading in counterfeit clothes brands
Stockholm District Court has sentenced a man to ten months behind bars for importing and selling counterfeit clothes brands. The relatively strict punishment was imposed even though the man has…
UK term of copyright extended to 70 years
On 1 October this year an important amendment was made to UK copyright law. Following the change, the term of copyright has now been increased from 25 years after the…
Awapatent climbs higher in Managing IP’s PCT ranking
Awapatent climbs four positions to 6th place in industry magazine Managing IP’s annual PCT survey, a ranking of European IP firms based on the number of PCT applications filed. Awapatent…
Coca-Cola loses its status as the world’s most valuable brand
Coca-Cola, IBM, Microsoft. For year after year these three companies have regularly topped Interbrand’s list of the world’s most valuable trademarks and brands. Last year, however, Apple succeeded in leapfrogging…