Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

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With a new month comes another opportunity to look back on last week on The IPKat. 

The YouTube/Cyando ruling of the CJEU featured last week, with PermaKat Eleonora Rosati analysing the Court’s reasoning in relation to a number of questions asked by the referring court, including whether platforms like YouTube and cyberlocker Uploaded directly perform copyright-restricted acts under Article 3 of the InfoSoc Directive, under which conditions the hosting safe harbour under Article 14(1) of the Ecommerce Directive is available, and what the requirements for injunctions under Article 8(3) of the InfoSoc Directive are.

GuestKat Rose Hughes reported on a claim faced by Carpmaels & Ransford, one of the UK’s leading patent attorney firms, brought by their client, chemical company BASF, over a missed EPO appeals deadline.

When is an Instagram Live not a live? This question, as well as others including the application of the Formstein defence, was considered by Katfriend Henry Yang in relation to the recent case of Facebook v Voxer. 

Kat readers with an interest in maximising the value of intellectual property portfolios may be interested in Katfriend Donal O’Connell’s review of Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, which he highly recommends.

Informa Connect is running a number of IP courses and conferences over the coming months, for which readers can secure a special 15% discount. For more details of the events and how to book, see here.