For the past four decades, foreign companies have been confronted with Chinese trademark squatting. Trademark squatting, in which someone else registers your trademark, suddenly prevents you from using your brand in China. Causing massive headaches every year, foreign companies are often left with little choice but to cough up huge sums to buy back the...
Join us for this special webinar where we talk to AWA’s client Oxeon about its signature product TeXtreme® – a unique weaving technology from the composites industry, particularly used for producing carbon reinforcements. Fredrik Engdahl and Martin Jansson from AWA’s Gothenburg office will sit down with Andreas Martsman – Oxeon’s VP of Marketing & Sales....
Insufficient patent protection and enforcement in China has been a long-standing frustration not just for international but also domestic rights holders. After several rounds of revisions and years in the making – the revised PRC Patent Law entered into force on June 1, 2021. The fourth amendments bring substantial changes including the creation of a...
Regulated as pharmaceuticals with a requirement for market approval, ATMPs (cell and/or gene therapy products) need to have a strong business model to survive costs of high-risk development, GMP manufacture and clinical trials. Partnering with commercial entities can often assist in your GMP translation, CMC, device and clinical trials development, but your partners need confirmation of protection for the commercial...
When creating a new product line or starting a new company, many types of considerations and preparations are necessary. Experience shows that the IP considerations are often near the bottom of the to-do list. However, not giving IP due focus may lead to substantial problems and headaches down the road. Some of these problems can be very...
17 NOV (10 AM-4 PM CET) Hybrid Career Fair (Day 1): Please, visit us at ARKAD 2021, Lund University-Faculty of Engineering Discover Your Future in Intellectual Property (IP)! Welcome to Stand # 45 at Studiecentrum (1st Floor), or stop by our virtual booth, to learn more about AWA and IP! 18 NOV (10 AM-3 PM CET) Hybrid Career Fair (Day 2): Please, visit us at ARKAD 2021,...
Trademark opposition proceedings provide trademark owners a relatively quick means to challenge the trademark application of another prior the challenged application being granted. Meanwhile, a cancellation proceeding offers a trademark owner a procedural mechanism to challenge an issued trademark at the Intellectual Property Office rather than in court. Different timelines, grounds for challenge, standards of...
23 NOV (10 AM-4 PM CET) Virtual Career Fair (Day 1): Please, visit us at ARMADA 2021, KTH. Create you profile at Armada.nu and get in touch with your future employer! Discover Your Future in Intellectual Property (IP)! 24 NOV (10 AM-4 PM CET) Virtual Career Fair (Day 2): Please, visit us at ARMADA 2021,...
Are you an Attorney-at-Law or soon-to-be? Looking to work with the world’s most innovative companies? Planning to attend the GAIUS Career Fair in Gothenburg on Thursday, 9 December? Please, visit our stand # 38 ”Övre handelsrätten” (University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law)! NERDS AND NON-NERDS, WELCOME! Your traits are equally important to...
The December seminar from the head of AWA Strategy – Henrik Olsson looking at how best to use IP at a commercial level will now be held online. The business domain is changing. Globalization, digitalization and pressure on higher returns from investments. These drivers challenge the classic perspectives on competition as well as innovation. We...
At the beginning of 2023 at the latest, the Unified Patent Court within the EU is expected to be effective. It will be possible to obtain patent protection with effect in several EU countries at the same time - a Unitary Patent. If you already have European patents, you need to decide in advance if...
The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court will significantly impact the patent system in Europe. For applicants or owners of European patents, it is time to inventory your IP portfolio and strategise whether your patents are more suited to the classic European system or the upcoming Unitary Patent system. Niklas Mattsson and Louise Jonshammar...