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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html 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... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/conference-report-whither-will.html The AmeriKat enjoying the slower pacedvalidity track… Ahhh, the German injunction gap. A topic of interest in the UK courts at the moment (see the various applications to expedite trials because of it here). But turns out the German patent litigators are also talking about it. From September 15... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/breaking-mercer-review-on-uk-patent.html As trainee patent attorneys across the country begin their final days of preparation for the UK qualifying examinations, CIPA today released the long-awaited Mercer Review. The Review has been published in the latest version of the CIPA journal (CIPA login required). Background: A need for change The CIPA president... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/guestpost-opinion-skirting-frand.html Merpel wonders where we are headed on the FRAND licensing level debate, and who is in the driver’s seat? In courtrooms across the globe, arguments continue to rage as to the extent of an SEP owner’s FRAND undertaking. In exchange for getting their technology incorporated into a standard (meaning that, if... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/guest-post-anderson-paak-got-new-tattoo.html I have the pleasure of hosting the following guest contribution by Despoina Dimitrakopoulou and Simon J. Fritsch, both talented and enthusiastic former students of mine, which – while reviewing Anderson .Paak‘s latest tattoo – discusses post-mortem moral rights protection and the value of a tattoo as an … advance... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/guest-post-monsantos-conspicuous.html This guest post, addressing Monsanto’s OA18791A patent, is brought to you by Lodewijk Van Dycke. Lodewijk is a PhD candidate and affiliated researcher at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) and a scholarship holder at Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. His main areas of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/wednesday-whimsies.html Conferences, webinars On October 18, the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (Stockholm University) will hold an online conference devoted to ‘The Making of EU Copyright’. The occasion of the conference is the publication of Eleonora Rosati’s book, “Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Article-by-Article Commentary to the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/does-court-of-appeals-21-split-in.html The AmeriKat instructing her computer overlordto come up with an invention which turnshousehold objects into tuna Can machines be inventors? The US, the European Patent Office, and Australia all have considered this question. None of their decisions however are helpful in the UK, since the relevant statutory provisions in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/swiss-supreme-court-invalidates.html Former Guest Kat Peter Ling, together with his associate, Joana Gurtner, report on the recent Swiss Supreme Court decision on the Nespresso Capsule 3D mark. Coffee capsules have turned out to be a revolution for how coffee is served in millions of homes … and also for case law... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/around-ip-blogs.html Trade Marks SpicyIP reviewed a ruling from the Bombay High Court concerning the deceptive similarity between signs. The case at hand dealt with the names ‘ASĀVA’ and ‘RAMPUR ASĀVA’ in connection with whiskey, in light of an earlier trade mark, ‘THE ASWA’, registered under Class 33 for alcoholic beverages.... Continue reading
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