Category: Insights

Your guiding star

A successful and effective company is organized such that the points of the Star Model – Strategy, Structure, Processes,

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Have faith in bad faith?

Swedish furniture retailer IKEA has lost the rights to its trademark in Indonesia. The Indonesian Supreme Court has cancelled

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Revised PACE programme from 1 January 2016

The programme for accelerated prosecution of European Patent Applications (PACE) allows applicants to request that the European Patent Office

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Changes to the European Trademark system

Classification reform – Article 28 (8) As we mentioned in our blog on 18 January 2016, a new regulation

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OEM activities in China do not amount to trademark infringement

The PRC Supreme People’s Court has decided that OEM activities in China do not amount to trademark infringement (however,

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Unitary SPCs in Europe after all?

As readers of this blog know, we at Awapatent are actively following the exciting developments in the creation of

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Moncler secured victory with a substantial Damages Award

Italian brand Moncler secured victory against Chinese infringer with a substantial Damages Award In a so-called “landmark” decision by

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Exclusive competence of the UPC – is it time to develop opt-out strategies?

The Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA), “the Court”, will enter into force four months after the 13th

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Reform of the European Trademark System

After some years work on aligning and improving the European trademark system a new legislative package on trademarks has

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Potential market size for Unitary Patents is 25% larger than for US patents and 90% larger than for traditional European patents

As you might already know, a European patent application is examined by the European Patent Office (EPO). If a

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