19 October 2012

One of Ström & Gulliksson’s founders has deceased

Tore Ström, European Patent Attorney, LL M, one of the founders of the patent & law firm Ström & Gulliksson, has tragically passed away on October 15, 2012. Mr Ström was born on December 17, 1926 and graduated from Malmö Technical Gymnasium and started his career as a radio engineer at the radio station of... Read more »

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20 April 2012

The big picture leads to success

Affärsvärlden magazine’s latest issue, accompanied by a special commercial law edition (no. 1-2012) told the story of Doro, which went through a difficult period around the turn of the millennium, but found a profitable niche in the mobile phone market by concentrating on simple phones for senior citizens. Today, Lund-based Doro is a global leader... Read more »

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20 April 2012

Opinion from Gulliksson’s clients

Legal500 has recently written the following about the Law firm Gulliksson: ”IP boutique Advokatbyrån Gulliksson shows ‘business sense and integrity’, and represents IKEA, Doro, Tetra Pak and ICA. The ‘highly experienced’ Jonas Gulliksson and ‘fantastic litigator’ Mattias Malmstedt are representing ratiopharm in a patent litigation. Hans-Anders Odh recently won a trade secret dispute.” Legal500 is... Read more »

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22 September 2011

EU extends term of copyright protection for recorded music

With the extension, the rights to recordings from the 1960s will not become public domain and composers and musicians – or their survivors – will retain control over how their works are used. The move will involve no practical changes in Sweden, where copyright protection under Swedish law endures for the lifetime of the author... Read more »

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23 June 2011

New trademarks act effective 1 July 2011

Partial registration After the law comes into effect, a trademark application may be rejected for only part of the products and services covered by the application. Formerly, PRV rejected the entire application if there was any obstacle to registration for any product and/or service. Extended deadline for opposition Effective 1 July, parties who wish to... Read more »

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14 June 2011

Advokatbyrån Gulliksson won appeal in the court of patent appeals

The CUVÉE FORET trademark is likely to be confused with the Community trademark LAFORET and must be removed from the register. This was established by the Swedish Court of Patent Appeals (CPA) in a decision on 19 May 2011, when the Court thus accepted Gulliksson’s arguments in the appeal lodged in June 2009. Unlike the... Read more »

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9 June 2011

Bratz won the battle of the dolls

A conflict of several years between toy giant Mattel (Barbie) and MGA Entertainment (Bratz) now seems definitively over. The court found that Mattel had stolen trade secrets and has ordered them to pay millions in damages to MGA, according to the online edition of The Guardian. The bitter battle, which cost both companies millions of... Read more »

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17 May 2011

The David of invention can beat Goliath

One of the most prominent inventors in the UK, John Mitchell, picked up his slingshot in defence of his US patent on a speech recognition interface for computers – and won. Multinational Goliaths, including Dragon Systems, IBM and Dictaphone have entered into contracts on the right to use Mitchell’s ‘Allvoice’ patent. Now he is the... Read more »

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17 May 2011

Facebook disputes

Facebook dispute 1 There was no Hollywood happy ending for the Winkelvoss twins, reports Swedish business magazine Affärsvärlden. After six years of litigation, the brothers have lost their last battle against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A settlement was arranged in 2008 after the twins had accused Zuckerberg of having stolen the idea for Facebook from... Read more »

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13 May 2011

International Trademark Associations Annual Meeting

INTA will hold its Annual Meeting 14-18 May 2011 in San Francisco. More than 8,500 attorneys and industry representatives from 140 countries will attend. The meeting is a valuable opportunity to exchange knowledge, meet with familiar business associates and establish new contacts. Attorneys Jens Olsson and Hans-Anders Odh will again represent the commercial law firm... Read more »

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13 May 2011

Jonas Gulliksson and Hans-Anders Odh recommended in IAM 250

Jonas Gulliksson and Hans-Anders Odh have both been recommended as two of Sweden’s leading intellectual property lawyers in IAM 250 – The World’s Leading Patent Litigators 2011, which writes: Jonas Gulliksson, senior partner and founder of the commercial law firm of Advokatbyrån Gulliksson, is “hailed for his many years of valuable experience in IP matters,... Read more »

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21 April 2011

Spotify restricts free services

The digital music service Spotify will restrict its free services, starting on May 1st. It will only be possible to listen free of charge during six months. After that, only ten hours per month will be for free and the users will only be able to listen to the same tune five times. The founder... Read more »

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