Category: Insights

Beer lovers sue for trademark dilution

Trademarks are, among other things, a guarantee for a certain level of quality. If the quality slips, the consumers may

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India’s Supreme Court rejects patent plea by Novartis for the cancer drug Glivec

For years, India did not offer any patent protection for chemical compounds, but was obliged to do this after joining

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Over n’ Out

The trainee program is over and the twelve of us who started more than seven months ago have spent

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The beginning of a new journey

The trainee program has come to an end, but unlike most endings it is not the end, but a

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In Trademarks, Connections are not Always Enough

The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei is the impressive name of an organisation most of us

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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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