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Don’t worry if you’ve been too busy enjoying the seaside to stay up-to-date this week. Here’s a brief summary of what you missed from the IPKat.

IP Generally

Katfriend Alessandro Cerri provided an update on the intellectual property-related aspects of the European Commission’s recent communication of its strategy on Web 4.0 and virtual worlds.

Patents

Rose Hughes gave us a two-part analysis of the Court of Appeal of England & Wales decision in Sandoz v BMS and how it diverged from the EPO’s approach to plausibility. In Part 1, she explored how the UK courts have tended to treat “plausibility” as an umbrella term spanning both sufficiency and inventive step. In Part 2, she focused on the EPO decision in G 2/21, and the way the Court of Appeal sought to reconcile that decision with Warner-Lambert.

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