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While this Kat is already saving space in his stomach for a chocolate feast next Sunday, check the latest news from around the IP blogs.
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Across the pond, IPFinance reported that the US Congressional Research Service has released a report for the US Congress concerning the COVID-19 Patent Waiver agreement between the U.S., India, South Africa, and the EU. The report contains information about the leaked agreement and specific issues for the U.S. Congress to consider.
Marques’ blog Class 46 reported on Chile‘s accession to the Madrid System, as well as a recent decision from the Turkish Patent and Trade Mark Office broadening the scope of trade name protection to cover identical trade mark applications for different goods/services.
The Kluwer Copyright Blog posted a summary of recent decisions, pieces of legislation, and development in EU copyright, including relevant cases yet to be decided.
Ed Sheeran is now playing the sweetest melodies as the High Court of England and Wales decided that the differences between ‘Shape of You’ and ‘Oh Why’ outweigh the similarities, as reported by IPWatchdog.
Meanwhile, in the patent world, there is more good news for the EU, as the Kluwer Patent Blog informed that interviews for candidate judges for the long-awaited Unified Patent Court have already started and that the number of patent applications in Europe continues to grow.
The Trademark Lawyer Magazine blog published an interesting article about the possibility of registering pejorative trade marks – which are not directly offensive and against moral standards, but still have a negative or unfavourable conceptual content.
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