Category: Insights

Did Dunhill score big in China litigation case?

In October 2018, UK luxury goods brand Dunhill announced that it had won a trademark battle against Chinese menswear

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Trend scouting at the world’s largest trade show

Joacim Lydén and Simon Markström share their insights from CES 2019 on the latest technologies being developed and the

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Sweden aligns Trademarks Act with EU regulations

On 7 November 2018 the Riksdag (supreme decision-making body of Sweden) voted in favour of modernising and simplifying the

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blockchain

How blockchain can change how we view IP rights

Blockchain has lately risen in popularity with uses such as the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, and new applications are implemented or

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Client-attorney privilege for non-US attorneys: Can clients trust that privileged communications with their patent attorneys will not be disclosed in US courts?

The legal situation in the US concerning client-attorney privilege for patent attorneys has seen some development in recent years.

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Co-inventorship to a patent had not been proved

On 10 October 2018 the Eastern High Court in Denmark gave judgement in a case between Coloplast and Hollister, regarding

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Banksy shreds his art

The Banksy stunt: The copyright holder’s right to shred the artwork

I don’t think anyone has missed the extraordinary event at the Sotheby’s auction in London a couple of weeks

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Bracing ourselves for a “no Brexit deal”?

The point of no return, the date of jumping off the cliff, the end of the conveyor belt, or

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Beijing, China

China’s innovation rise – patent landscape review and outlook

For the first time in 11 years China broke into the world’s top 20 most innovative economies in the

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fintech

Creating an effective FinTech IP strategy

AWA Asia’s IP strategy and patent team in Beijing looks at the China FinTech market, discusses available IP protection

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