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Celebrate World IP Day
The theme for this year’s celebration is “culture in the digital age: how we create it, how we access it, how we finance it.” In 2000, WIPO’s member states decided…
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Increase of cybersquatting due to new top level domains
Last year, trademark owners filed 2,754 “cybersquatting” cases with WIPO, an increase of 4.6% over the previous year. Cybersquatting typically means the registration of a domain name with bad faith…
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Swedish government initiates an IP drive
As a start of this drive the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications arranged a seminar in Stockholm on 23 March. People from innovative companies, authorities, organizations and universities…
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European patent applications continue to grow
The 2015 annual report of the European Patent Office (EPO) shows that 160 000 European patent applications were filed with the EPO last year. This is an increase with 4.8…
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IKEA loses its trademark in Indonesia
Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has lost the rights to its own trademark in Indonesia. The Indonesian supreme court has ruled that the trademark belongs to the local rattan furniture company…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Innovations barometer 2016
Swedish companies will invest more in innovation and patents during 2016, according to interviews with 100 R&D managers. This is reported in Awapatent’s yearly Innovation barometer which is referred to…
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Trademark reform package good news for trademark owners
Increased legal certainty and clarity at reduced fee levels are some of the effects of the trademark reform package which was approved by the European Parliament last week. The package…