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Tag: Patent
Helping babies breathe
After spending endless nights making prototypes in a basement, doctors Kjell Nilsson and Gunnar Moa finally solved the riddle
Can you not patent a beer?
On 15 March 2017, the coalition No Patents on Seeds issued a press release to stop patents on beer,
EPO gets Stricter on Requirements for Recording Assignments
The EPO is going to take a stricter approach for recording an assignment of EP applications. Up until now
European Patent Office: New PPH agreements on the way
The ever expanding Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) network keeps getting new additions, and as usual, the AWAPATENT IP Blog
The value of design patents
It is a perfectly clear, crisp morning as I make my way from Washington DC’s Union Station, through a
Unified Patent Court – one step closer to opening the Court
On October 1 2015, a Protocol to the UPC Agreement was signed by first seven member states . It
Can innovative clean tech companies save the world…and still be profitable?
Well, as we all know, innovation and research and development usually cost a lot of money, and the simplest
The Indian Jungle – an IP perspective, part 2
To foreign applicants filing a patent application in India takes place “at the IPO”, but in reality there is
The Indian Jungle – an IP perspective, part 1
“Now these are the laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they…” – Rudyard Kipling wrote these
European patent validation in Morocco and Tunisia
Recently, the EPO has initiated work on a new interesting possibility for European patent applicants. Namely, the EPO has