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Will trademarks go up in smoke?

More than 10 years ago the Tobacco Products Directive (2001/37/EC) was adopted in the EU, and on 26 February

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Courage – a child’s game

I’ve eaten scorpions, mountaineered in hard conditions in the Swiss Alps and even hosted a full kindergarten party in

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Don’t let your trademark be guillotined!

Throughout history we have learned that revolutions can be very bloody. Or at least, the bloodiest and most horrible

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“Technical poetry”

With the ambition to become European Patent Attorneys, a dozen of eager “students” follow our in-house EQE basic program,

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Fatal success

When introducing a product, the company must have as a goal or at least a hope that the trademark

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Changed conditions regarding the possibility to register “geographical” trademarks

As you might have heard before, a fundamental requirement for registering a trademark is that the trademark is distinctive,

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Fuelling up

Today CEO, central and regional management as well as all business unit managers gathered in Awapatent’s Gothenburg premises. The

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Taking the EQE C exam for the last time?

Four years ago, 2010, in the beginning of March, I sat the European Qualifying Examination, to become an authorized

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There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe

Required study preparations before our fourth lesson of the EQE Basic program concern the topics “Rights Conferred” and “Inventive

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The IP5 launch a PPH pilot programme

According to the EPO, the world’s five largest Intellectual Property Offices, called IP5, have announced the agreement to launch

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