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BREAKING NEWS: The first Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List has been published!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/breaking-news-first-counterfeit-and.html The first Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List has been published by the European Commission (EC) today. It identifies marketplaces, registrars and hosting providers located outside the EU which are engaged in facilitating substantial counterfeiting and piracy. Background On 22 January 2018, the EC launched the public consultation with the... Continue reading
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Brand Protection – fresh perspectives from a Frankfurt conference [Part 1]

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/brand-protection-fresh-perspectives.html Brand protection is much harder in the digital age – small packages are a big part of the problem I have recently returned from the Second Brand Protection Congress in Frankfurt. It was a very interesting event with a wide range of speakers and topics all linked to brand... Continue reading
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Book review: Copyright law and derivative works

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/book-review-copyright-law-and.html “There is nothing new under the sun”. In copyright law, this declaration from the Book of Ecclesiastes translates into an awkward tension between the need to limit slavish copying (to prevent free-riding), on the one hand, and the need to allow a degree of derivative creation, on the other (to... Continue reading
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Double trouble: fresh CJEU reference from Swedish Supreme Court regarding scope of communication to the public inside cars

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/double-trouble-fresh-cjeu-reference.html Swedish Collective Management Organisation (STIM) and the Swedish Artists’ and Musicians’ Interest Organisation (SAMI) brought two separate proceedings against two companies that operate in the automobile leasing/renting industry. Both cases followed missed payment (since 2014) of yearly licensing fees to STIM and SAMI, and they are currently pending before... Continue reading
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BREAKING: TBA decides that Rule 28(2) EPC excluding plant products produced by essentially biological processes from patentability, is void

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/breaking-tba-decides-that-rule-282-epc.html IPKat has received breaking news that the Technical Board of Appeal (TBA) yesterday decided that recently amended Rule 28(2) EPC is in conflict with Art. 53(b) EPC as interpreted by the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 2/12 (Broccoli/Tomato II). Further, according to the Art. 164(2) EPC the Articles prevail, thus... Continue reading
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”Baby you can drive my car” period is over. Welcome the Self-driving vehicles.

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/baby-you-can-drive-my-car-period-is.html With the first self-driving vehicles (SDVs) likely to be commercially available by 2025, it seems that the transport revolution is nearly upon us. Among the major players in this new emerging market, we have the established automotive firms investing in digital technologies, with an upcoming group of patent holders... Continue reading
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New joint IPKat/BLACA event! The topic is … Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/new-joint-ipkatblaca-event-topic-is.html Pinocchio, arguably one of the first cases of AI,and his Kat Figaro Artificial Intelligence and copyright: best friends, enemies, or … frenemies? Find out by attending this new joint IPKat/BLACAevent, which will take place at London’s ReedSmith offices in the evening of Thursday, 10 January 2019. The event, which... Continue reading
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ECtHR rules that prohibiting linking to defamatory content might be freedom of expression violation: what implications (if any) for copyright?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/ecthr-rules-that-prohibiting-linking-to.html Kat licknking Can linking to protected content be considered an infringement of IP rights, at certain conditions? As far as copyright is concerned, this is a question that – further to the decisions of the Court of Justice of the European (CJEU) in cases like Svensson [Katposts here] and GS... Continue reading
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Revenge porn: …still no IP rights in sight

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/revenge-porn-still-no-ip-rights-in-sight.html Revenge porn is sometimes mentioned in textbooks and commentary as the typical case of private production gone wrong, for which IP rights would prove useful not so much for incentivising the commercial dissemination of the ‘work’ but, rather, for its taking down. Such a scenario would certainly make for... Continue reading
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Protecting reggae – Cultural heritage needs IP

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/12/protecting-reggae-cultural-heritage.html A few days ago news spread that well-known musical genre reggae, which originated in the beautiful island of Jamaica, would be protected by the UN. Katfriend Natalie Corthésy (The University of the West Indies at Mona) explains what happened in detail and reflects on the implications thereof. Here’s what... Continue reading