Category: Insights

Can “Real World” IP Tools Effectively Protect Virtual Reality?

Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of

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Will .Africa be the one digital space for the African continent?

With the goal of establishing ’Africa in One Space‘, dotAfrica aims to provide a secure and world-class technical infrastructure

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Damage liability for preliminary injunction

New Scandinavian case law clarifies a patent or trademark owner’s liability to pay damages for a wrongfully issued preliminary

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Can you not patent a beer?

On 15 March 2017, the coalition No Patents on Seeds issued a press release to stop patents on beer,

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BEPS from an IP perspective, Part 2

Part 2: Transfer Pricing documentation requirements From 1 April 2017, BEPS action 13 guidelines on transfer pricing (TP) documentation

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EPO

The EPO improving timeliness and granting patents at a record level

After having a brief look at the statistics in the EPO (European Patent Office) annual report of 2016, which

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Final meeting of the Preparatory Committee signals pending start of UPC

On 15 March 2017, the UPC Preparatory Committee hopefully met for the last time before the start of the

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Strategy in Focus – Part 1

In this series of blog posts called “Strategy in Focus”, AWA Strategy explores the topics of IP strategy, infrastructure

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PPH agreement between EP and PL enters into force as Poland joins the GPPH

The ever expanding PPH network keeps getting new additions and as always the AWAPATENT Blog sums up the new

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What opportunities and risks come with the new Top Level Domains (TLDs)?

When ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) launched the new TLD Program, the purpose was to stimulate

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