Category: Insights

Nobel, Nobel …

‘Tis the season when the Nobel Prizes get announced, when science and scientists get their share of media attention.

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Sweden and China make new Patent Prosecution Highway agreement

Effective 1 July 2014 the PRV (Sweden) and the SIPO (China) started a new PPH-agreement thus offering especially our

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You have a right to remain silent

(Or: What do midwives and patent attorneys authorized in Sweden have in common?) As a citizen in a society,

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Copyright in relation to e-books

The copyright protection of authors is being increasingly challenged by the continuing digitalization of the book market. The emergence

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Revisions to the Korean Trademark Act

The aim of the revisions, which were implemented in June this year, is to reinforce the position of trademark

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Open innovation – time to dispense with intellectual property rights?

First of all: open innovation – what exactly is it? It would be almost wrong to discuss open innovation(OI)

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The 2014 World Cup from an IP perspective

Football enthusiasts all over the world indulged in the fantastic spectacle of the World Cup in Brazil this summer,

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New Trademark Act in force in China since 1 May 2014

The intention of this new Act is inter alia to go after trademark infringers and strengthen the position and

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An unknown exception error at the EPO

We recently blogged about how the EPO has introduced the concept of small entities for obtaining fee reductions in

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Blog entry #2 on new Rule 6 EPC

Will some applications be left with no Rule 6 EPC applicable following its amendment? Following my previous blog entry

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