Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

This Kat isn’t quite sure how she got here

Cometh the hour, cometh the roundup of last week on the IPKat. 

GuestKat Nedim Malovic considered the meaning of bad faith pursuant to Article 59(1)(b) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation, following the EU General Court’s decision in Riviera-Airport v EUIPO.

Also in the EU vein, InternKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko reported on the Opinion issued by Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe in Case C-123/20, which relates to the protectability of ‘partial designs’ as an unregistered Community design right.

Asia Correspondent Tian Lu summarised a recent judgment of the Beijing High People’s Court on whether a sign which was the subject of an application to China’s Trade Mark Office which means “Eat Clan People” carries an association with cannibalism producing an adverse effect, given the adverse effect clause of China’s Trade Mark Law. 

Kat friend Francisco Martínez identified the main points of the recently-enacted El Salvadorean Bitcoin Law, which makes the cryptocurrency legal tender in the Central American nation with the twin aims of promoting financial inclusion and economic growth.

Former GuestKat Rosie Burbidge returned with a glowing review of ‘Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century An International Assessment of Knowledge Transfer Policies’, edited by Anthony Arundel (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and University of Tasmania), Suma Athreye (Essex Business School, Southend Campus), and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent (World Intellectual Property Organization), recommending it to those working on public research-related topics.