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New draft on China Trademark Law

The Chinese authorities recently published the third revised draft of the China Trademark Law for public opinion. The draft

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Design Concepts – Out of the Bottle

On 20 October 2011, the Court of Justice rendered their first decision on a registered Community design. The decision

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Busy weeks of practice

 This is now the third week of the first practice period at the home office. Now I find myself

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Cooperative Patent Classification – a new patent classification system

Everybody who ever conducted patent litterature searches knows the problems arising from the very different criteria for classifying patents

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Personal branding – reflections after inspiring seminars with the famous adventurer Renata Chlumska

Awapatent is co-operating with the famous adventurer Renata Chlumska who is well known for several accomplishments, such as being

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Patentability of inventions relating to human embryonic stem cells

The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has recently issued a decision clarifying the situation on patentability, in

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“There is so much more to learn …” – first report from our Specialist programme

It is peculiar how all of a sudden all news media and even friends and family seem to discuss

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EU patent to pave Europe’s way out of crisis

On 12 October 2011 the European Commission presented a so-called “Roadmap for stability and growth” outlining the response that

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Patent Prosecution Highway – Sweden and NPI entering the PPH-network

As I mentioned in my blog entry of 19 september, the number of PPH-agreements has increased, introducing new possibilities

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Explore the benefits of a first national filing

The filing of a patent application is associated with numerous considerations. Should it be firstly filed as an international

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