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On this, lovely Saturday morning, let’s have a look at what the Kats were up to last week…

Enjoying a fantastic
brunch this morning…

PATENTS

The Australian High Court overturned 150 years of precedent to adopt exhaustion of rights doctrine for patented products. Rose Hughes reported on the case of Calidad v Epson with regards to an implied license versus exhaustion of rights.  

 

The EPO has released the first detailed information for candidates on the arrangements for the online pre-EQE and EQE next year. Rose Hughes summarised the important information.

 

OTHER IP TOPICS: IP EVENTS, AI, BLOCKING INJUNCTION, THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University, of which Eleonora Rosati have the honour and pleasure of being the new Director, is organizing a new event which will be held on 17 December 2020 on the topic “IFIM Holiday Seminar – Tales of the New Doctors of Law”.

 

Is it time to move on from the AI inventor debate? Rose Hughes discussed the topic of AI inventors and inventions.

 

Wondering how to draft an order for a website blocking injunction? The  High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales has come out with another ruling concerning blocking injunctions, this time in the case of Matchroom Boxing Ltd and another v British Telecommunications plc and others [2020] EWHC 2868 (Ch). Frantzeska Papadopoulou reported on the case.

 

What happens when success brings not only its own reward but also rewards others, who may be competitors? Neil Wilkof considered the story of “The Queen’s Gambit”.

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