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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/africa-ip-highlights-2022-1-copyright.html It’s December and time for …drumroll… The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-post-brexit-trade-mark-order.html Post-Brexit, evidence of use and acquired distinctiveness of a trade mark may be one of the areas within trade mark law that cause headaches for practitioners. The position of the EUIPO, when it comes to acquired distinctiveness through use in the UK for the purposes of an invalidation action... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-does-election-rhyme-with.html Can you use someone’s song without their permission, moreover in the context of a political event? The answer seems to be a straightforward one. Yet, many politicians continue behaving like that. Our Katfriends at Gorrissen Federspiel in Copenhagen – Hanne Kirk, Jakob Plesner Mathiasen and Paul Sina – comment.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/does-eu-law-say-anything-regarding.html Joint ownership of IP rights is one of the areas that, in practice, may generate some of the biggest headaches, in particular when it comes to determining what each and every joint owner can do independently of the other owner(s). It is also an area in which historically different... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-conference-report-design.html A few weeks ago, the UNION-IP Designs Commission in association with the UNION-IP Netherlands national group – “Design & Copyright Law: siblings or rival?” held another roundtable session (Thursday Thingies), the topic of which related to the overlaps between copyright and design law (details of the event to be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-gaslighting-became-2022-dictionary.html If you used the word “gaslighting” recently, you are not alone. Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently selected it as the 2022 “word of the year”. [Merpel grouses—”you are such a nerd”, with the rest of the world following the World Cup]. Whatever, the story of how the word went... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-mocambique-principle-and.html Whilst a bit different from PatKat’s stable Katfood of EPO case law, the recent decision from the Court of Appeal in GW Pharma v Otsuka ([2022] EWCA Civ 1462) is nonetheless food for thought. The decision considered whether the UK courts are able to hear a dispute over whether royalties are due under a... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/monday-miscellany.html Temperatures are dropping – but not the weekly summary of events and opportunities that The IPKat suggests to you! “Snow Cat” by ethanol76 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Events and opportunities The British group of UNION IP (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property) is organising a meeting with The Honourable... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/breaking-upc-and-sunrise-start-dates.html The AmeriKat resting a bit easier with the UPC news An early holiday present for Unified Patent Court users this morning. This morning came the announcement that the start of the UPC is being pushed back by two months. The start of the Sunrise Period has moved from 1 January... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-artificial-intelligence-works-in.html Kat friend Jakub Wyczik provides an enlightening discussion of how AI and the law, especially copyright, intersect, with particular attention to the technical operation of AI. Images generated using text-to-image technology, including DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffussion, have become a main topic in AI. Not only do many... Continue reading
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