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This Kat hopes you have had a wonderful week. Here’s what you missed from the IPKat last week:
Copyright
Chiara Gallo reported on the happenings at this year’s edition of the Sanremo Music Festival, and discussed how Italian copyright and criminal law protect street art.
Geographical indications
Anastasiia Kyrylenko analysed a Paris Appeal Court decision about “evocation” in EU geographical indications law, and whether it has been defined too widely.
Patents
Chijioke Okorie commented on a ruling of the South African Constitutional Court, which discussed the common law doctrine of unclean hands and how it may apply in the context of patent infringement.
Rose Hughes summarised the upcoming European Patent Office guidelines for examination, with the main updates being the new sequence listing standard, the Unified Patent Court, and new provisions regarding missing and erroneous parts.
Rose Hughes also commented on a recent EPO Board of Appeal decision, which held that subtle differences between a patent application as filed and the claimed subject matter can be fatal to a granted European patent.
Unfair competition
Marcel Pemsel discussed a recent judgement of the German Supreme Court on when a principal, such as Amazon, would be liable for the unlawful acts of its agents, in this case, affiliates.
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