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The Unified Patent Court. Do we finally have a predictable timeline?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-unified-patent-court-do-we-finally.html After the Order of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) dated 23 June 2021 (see here the IPKat post) it is now clarified that Germany is able to participate in the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (UPCA) and the Protocol on the Provisional Application of the UPCA (the... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat recently

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat.html Patents PermaKat Annsley Merelle Ward informed about the UK litigation in Abbott v Dexcom, a patent dispute over glucose monitoring devices for diabetes. Abbott and Dexcom are currently in legal battlein US, Germany and the UK, each accusing the other of patent infringement and invalidity of the other party’s... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/around-ip-blogs_18.html This Kat is waiting watchfully What weekend could fail to be brightened by a jaunt around the IP blogs? Patents FOSS Patents published two articles on IP in China, one on a decision of the Supreme People’s Court affirming jurisdiction over global FRAND rates, and another on the country’s response... Continue reading
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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/book-review-intellectual-property-law.html The first edition of Intellectual Property Law in China (IPLCN) was the first of a bunch of goodies this Kat enthusiastically gathered from the incomparable IP library of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI). It was published in 2005 – a bit aged – but it... Continue reading
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DABUS: An AI inventor or the Emperor’s New Clothes?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/dabus-ai-inventor-or-emperors-new.html The question of whether it should be possible to name artificial intelligence (AI) code as an inventor on a patent application continues to dog patent offices and courts around the world. However, despite the global attention on the so-called “AI inventor” patent applications, we are no nearer to understanding... Continue reading
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Fashion Law London’s online event on the fashion marketplace coming up on 22 October with IPKat readers’ discount

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/fashion-law-londons-online-event-on_15.html Readers may be aware that, together with Giulia Gasparin, I am also currently involved in Fashion Law London, an initiative that was born in 2019 to create opportunities of study and discussion, mostly from an IP and IT law perspective, for all those interested in this emerging field of practice... Continue reading
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Long-awaited changes for Australian designs receive Royal Assent

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/long-awaited-changes-for-australian.html Differences in the treatment of design law across jurisdictions remain a fascinating subject. Kat friend, Dr. Tyrone Berger, reports on what he calls “long-awaited changes” to the design law of Australia. Australia’s Parliament has recently passed the Designs Amendment (Advisory Council on Intellectual Property Response) Bill 2020 to allow... Continue reading
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EU General Court dismisses Sony’s ‘Gran Turismo’ appeal

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/eu-general-court-dismisses-sonys-gran.html As a computer and video game enthusiast, I could not help but notice that the EU General Court in a recent decision (T-463/20) dismissed Sony’s appeal against an earlier decision of the EUIPO Fourth Board of Appeal, which had upheld the decision of the Opposition Division rejecting Sony’s opposition against... Continue reading
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Conference Report: UIC Law Thinking Internationally about IP and ADR – What Every Lawyer & Corporate Counsel Should Know

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/conference-report-uic-law-thinking.html Back on August 19, 2021, the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property (“IP”), Information, and Privacy Law, the IP Office of Singapore (IPOS), and the World IP Organization’s (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center co-organized a seminar on the intersection of intellectual property and alternative... Continue reading
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British Institute of International and Comparative Law launches online IP courses

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/british-institute-of-international-and.html The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), currently led by IP personality and academic Spyros Maniatis, is launching a series of virtual courses in different legal fields which will be delivered over the next few months. “Back” to school … Among other things, BIICL is also increasing... Continue reading