http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/us-copyright-office-review-board-denies.html Although the World Cup is over, this Kat can’t keep his mind off thinking about MORE football … or soccer (as Americans call it). In 2016, the Union des Associations Européennes de Footbal (UEFA) filed an application with the US Copyright Office to have the famous Starball logo registered... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/want-to-be-ip-judge.html Have you ever criticized or commended a decision of a judge? Did you ever say over drinks to your colleagues, “That decision made no sense whatsoever! They completely missed [insert grievance]”? Have you read a decision only to get at the end to think “Would I have decided it... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/milan-court-issues-dynamic-blocking.html Does a blocking injunction against an intermediary only concern the domain names indicated in the relevant order or can it be also considered as encompassing future infringements committed through other domain names?This is the question that the Milan Court of First Instance (Tribunale di Milano) had to address in... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/birss-j-excuses-chugai-from-tocilizumab.html It’s August. The Friday before a Bank Holiday weekend. So surely, Mr Justice Birss is not handing down a meaty patent judgment today? Think again. This morning, Birss J handed down his decision in Chugai Pharmaceutical v UCB & Celltech [2018] EWHC 2264 in favor of Chugai. The issue... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/katy-perry-sued-for-copyright.html Following this Kat’s post on the Ed Sheeran copyright infringement case relating to the song “Shape of You” (here), she came across another similar dispute going on over the pond!This case, brought in the US District Court of California, is between Plaintiffs Marcus Gray, Chike Ojukwu, and Emanuel Lambert... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/euipo-publishes-436-page-survey-on-pre.html The AmeriKat has been noticeably whiskers down in her day job over the past few months. But now, with the frenzy of a new Court term still several weeks away, she has taken the relatively quiet opportunity to review the much awaited publication of the EU IPO’s report entitled... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/is-there-high-chance-of-us-and-uk.html The US and UK patent offices have granted a number of patents relating to the therapeutic use of cannabis derived products. Paradoxically, both the US and UK governments currently define cannabis and cannabis-derived products as having no medicinal benefit. Recent developments suggest that both governments may soon soften the... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/has-cjeu-quietly-changed-conditions-for.html Kat on the beach Right before the summer break, on 7 August last, when most people had already turned their out-of-office auto-reply on or were getting ready to move to the beach, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued quite an interesting ruling – SNB-REACT, C-521/17 – concerning... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/10-million-us-patents-since-1790-and_21.html This is part 3 of a series of posts containing Andrew Waugh QC’s review of US Patents since 1790. Parts 1 and 2 can be found by clicking here and here. Patent no. 6,000,000 – December 7, 1999 1,000,000 in 8 years – 125,000 a year Patent No. 6,000,000... Continue reading
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2018/08/book-review-copyright-what-everyone.html by Graham & Brown The end of each summer brings its traditional review of teaching curricula and reading lists before the start of a new academic semester. With ‘Copyright – What Everyone Needs to Know’, US scholar Neil Weinstock Netanel, Professor of Law at UCLA, offers a new title... Continue reading