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Acapo is one of the leading Intellectual Property consultancy firms in Norway
with offices in the three major cities Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.
Our services include advisory services within all fields of IPR. Filing and prosecution
of applications for European and Norwegian patents is within our core field of
business. Our lawyers attend to litigation of cases pertaining to i.a. patents,
trademarks and marketing law. The higly skilled staff of Acapo handles filing of
applications for Norwegian trademark and design registrations.
As a full-serviced IPR-firm, Acapo also attend to maintenance of patents, and design
and trademark registrations.
The company and our professionals are members of INTA, FICPI, ITMA, EPI, The
Norwegian Patent Attorney Association [Norsk Patentingeniørforening], Marques
and LESI, as well as Den Norske Advokatforening [The Norwegian Bar Association].
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03 May 2013
The New Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights
Until 1.st April this year all decisions from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office (NIPO) could be appealed to the appeal institute “The Second Instance”. From this date the institute was replaced by the new appeal institute “The Norwegian Board of Appeal for Industrial Property Rights” (BoA). The changes are regulated by the amended Act of 22.nd June 2012, no. 58 regulating the organization of the Norwegian Industrial Property Office.
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15 January 2013
New EU patent and Court
The EU parliament has passed the establishment of a unitary EU patent, and a court for enforcement thereof. Thus, one will be able to apply for an EU patent and enforce it in the whole of Europe through a single, common judiciary system, without the need for acting through the national courts in each member state. As an EPC member but not EU member Norway is excluded, so EPC applications will still be validated in Norway, and enforced through national Norwegian patent court cases.
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12 October 2012
We congratulate Katja Reitan as European patent Attorney
Katja Reitan has just passed the European Qualifying Examination (EQE) and thus the right to the title European Patent Attorney. She is thereby qualified to represent clients before the European Patent Office (EPO) as a professional representative.
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