News: Awards and Rankings
Awapatent wins MIP award “Sweden Prosecution Firm of the Year” again
Posted on March 9, 2018
Awapatent was announced winner for Prosecution Firm of the Year 2018 for Sweden at Managing Intellectual Property’s (MIP) award ceremony in London last night. This is the second consecutive year the firm wins the prestigious award. “I am proud to once again receive this acknowledgment from the industry as we continuously strive to develop ourselves...
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IP Stars: Awapatent leading patent firm in latest rankings
Posted on March 6, 2018
Awapatent has once again been selected one of the leading IP firms for patents in Sweden and Denmark by Managing Intellectual Property (MIP). Awapatent (Sweden) remains ranked in Tier 1 in Patent Prosecution and in Tier 3 in the category Contentious Work. Awapatent A/S (Denmark) is still ranked in Tier 2 in the category Patent...
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Ai-Leen Lim and Inga-Lill Andersson selected WIPR Leaders
Posted on February 14, 2018
WIPR (World IP Review Report) has recognised AWA Asia’s Ai-Leen Lim and Awapatent’s Inga-Lill Andersson as Leaders in their 2018 rankings. The results are based on nominations from industry peers. WIPR Leaders ranks the leading IP practitioners in the world. The handbook lists over 1,700 lawyers. For the full rankings, please visit WIPR’s website.
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IP Stars 2018: Awapatent up one tier in trademark contentious for Sweden
Posted on February 7, 2018
Awapatent AB is has climbed from Tier 3 to Tier 2 for Trademark Contentious (Sweden) in the latest edition of Managing IP’s rankings IP Stars. We remain in Tier 1 for Trademark Prosecution for Sweden. In the Danish rankings, Awapatent A/S has moved up to Tier 3 for Trademark Contentious from being listed under ‘Other...
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Awapatent remains strong in WTR 2018 rankings
Posted on January 25, 2018
In the 2018 WTR (World Trademark Review) rankings, Awapatent and AWA Asia have gone from strength to strength. Awapatent as a group is recommended in the international listing joining 21 other carefully selected firms worldwide: “Awapatent has successfully positioned itself as a thoroughly modern international IP consultancy, with a strong presence in Northern Europe and...
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Fourteen countries have now ratified the UPC
Posted on September 20, 2017
Despite the uncertain situation in the UK and Germany, other EU member states seem to continue to ratify the UPC agreement. The latest states to join those who have already ratified are Estonia and Lithuania, of which both deposited their instruments for ratification during August. The complete list can be found here. Before the new...
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Revised timetable for the UPC
Posted on June 27, 2017
On 27 June, 2017 the Chairman of the preparatory committee, Mr. Alexander Ramsay issued a message through the UPC website. It can be red in full here. The recent development in some of the countries necessary for the UPC to be able to start, in particular with regards to Germany, has now lead to the...
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The 2017 UPC Christmas present
Posted on January 16, 2017
The preparatory committee of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has today, January 16, announced that the UPC may become operational in December 2017. The committee also announced that they expect the provisional application phase to start at the end of spring 2017, presumably in May. Last year the UPC had postponed the recruitment of UPC...
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UPC might start 2017 after all
Posted on November 28, 2016
Today, the UK minister for Intellectual Property announced that the UK government is proceeding with preparations to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signals-green-light-to-unified-patent-court-agreement). “Following the announcement today, the UK will continue with preparations for ratification over the coming months. It will be working with the Preparatory Committee to bring the Unified Patent Court (UPC)...
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The Netherlands are getting closer to the ratification of the UPC
Posted on June 29, 2016
On 28 June 2016, the first chamber of the Dutch parliament approved a bill that enables the Netherlands to ratify the UPC agreement. The instrument of ratification must now be deposited with the Council of the EU before the ratification comes into effect. When this has been done the Netherlands will most likely be the...
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