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Adam Williams appointed as CEO of UK IPO

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/adam-williams-appointed-as-ceo-of-uk-ipo.html The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that Adam Williams has been appointed Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the IPO. The announcement reported the following: Adam WilliamsImage: UK IPO Adam joined the Intellectual Property Office in 2009 and took up the role of Director of Business and International... Continue reading
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Book review: IP for Start-Ups

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-ip-for-start-ups.html This is a review of Intellectual Property Strategies for Start-ups: A Practical Guide, edited by Stefan Golkowsky, partner, PFENNING Patent Attorneys and Lawyers, Berlin, Germany. Leif Zierz describes in the foreword, that “this book illustrates how IP protection – especially in the early stages of a business – helps... Continue reading
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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

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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The post-Brexit trade mark order: (ir)relevance of use and acquired distinctiveness in the UK for EU trade marks

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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[Guest post] Does election rhyme with copyright protection?

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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Does EU law say anything regarding the exercise of IPR joint owners’ rights? Not according to AG Campos … but is that it?

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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[Guest post] Conference report: Design & Copyright Law – siblings or rivals?

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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How “gaslighting” became the 2022 dictionary word of the year

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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The Moçambique principle and challenging the validity of a foreign patent: GW Pharma v Otsuka [2022] EWCA Civ 1462

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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Monday Miscellany

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