Category: Insights

Is use in only one single member state in EU enough for a Community Trademark?

If you have a registered EU trademark (“Community trademark”) today, which was registered for more than five years ago,

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From theory to practice – a trainee’s perspective

Although we have only scratched the surface of the complex patent world comprising “Patent Law Theory”, “Patent Application Procedure

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The Cooperative Patent Classification has been launched!

As many will already have noticed the Corporate Patent Classification (CPC), which the AWAPATENT IP Blog has covered previously,

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New Chinese sub-class

In the 2013 version (in force from 1 January 2013) of the tenth edition of the NICE Classification of

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No, no more top-level domains!

2013 will see the launch of a ton of new top-level domains – perhaps as many as two thousand

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New DK Patent Prosecution Highway-agreement

 New Patent Prosecution Highway agreement between the DKPTO and China’s SIPO Since the beginning of 2013 a new PPH

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Playing with Trademarks – Watch Out

If you ask us, we will say that you shall register your trademark as you use it and use

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A patent application for a trainee unit of patent knowledge

To: Awapatent IP Blog Re: Patent Application Background of the invention Two periods of heavy patent theory have passed,

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“There and back again” – a trainee’s tale

Time flies, three intense weeks of theoretical training went by very quickly. We have had the opportunity to learn

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Patenting in the cloud

In the field of distributed computing, user devices with limited computing power may be connected to a remote computing

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