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| This Kat is feeling pensive |
With a cold snap incoming and a change in the air, why not look back on last week’s IPKat?
Copyright
Following on from the Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee’s UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry, Hayleigh Bosher reported on the UK Government’s responses to the Committee’s Recommendations.
Trade marks
GuestKat Nedim Malovic considered the implications of trade mark classification through the lens of the background to a dispute over Veuve Clicquot’s orange: is it a figurative mark or protection of a colour per se?
Kat friends Karen Lai and Joshua Kwan discussed a recent case from Singapore concerning the appropriateness of partial revocation and whether R&D activities can amount to genuine use of a trade mark in the course of trade.
Other
Asia Correspondent Tian Lu briefed readers on China’s release of a 15-year plan to develop intellectual property rights, titled ‘The Outline of Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Nation’ (2021–2035).
Reviewing Laura A. Ford’s ‘The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution’, Book Review Editor Hayleigh Bosher described the work as “unique in its offering of a combination of sociological and legal perspectives on the emergence of intellectual property”.
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