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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/golden-bunny-iii-no-retroactive.html The Golden Bunny trade mark litigation continues to hop along. Former Guest Kat Peter Ling reports on the recent decision of the German Federal Court of Justice regarding retroactive application of the EU Trade Marks Directive. In addition to being known as a source for great chocolate, Swiss chocolate... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/australian-federal-circuit-finds.html The Australian Federal Circuit has overturned a decision of the Commissioner of Patent to reject a patent term extension (PTE) application based on a third party marketing authorisation ([2021] FCA 643). The Federal Circuit found the consequences of enforcing a strict interpretation of “first authorisation” for the purposes of determining the valid... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/guest-post-skykicks-back-with-bad-faith.html Trade mark-focused IPKat readers are well familiar with the SkyKick legal saga, which also included a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union [Katposts here]. Recently, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales delivered its own ruling on the matter. Former GuestKat Darren Meale (Simmons... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/general-court-considers-panta-rhei.html In a recent decision, the General Court considered that ‘PANTA RHEI’ was confusingly similar to the earlier EU trade mark ‘PANTA RHEI’. In particular, the General Court found that, on account of the identity of the two signs and despite the low degree of similarity between the goods, the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/around-ip-blogs_19.html Patents SpicyIP discussed the Indian’s Parliament Standing Committee’s recommendations concerning AI and patent protection. These recommendations are part of a Report of the Standing Committee, which recommended revising Indian’s IPR legislation to ‘extract benefits from AI’. The Report accordingly recommends amending Indian patent law, to make AI-generated works and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/thursday-thingies.html This Kat would like to knowwhy you rang As we get towards the end of another working week, it’s time to see what news and events await. Book release PermaKat Eleonora Rosati’s article-by-article commentary to the DSM Directive 2019/790 has just been released. The book, which contains a foreword... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/not-yet-tired-of-linking-and-copyright.html Earlier this year, The IPKat reported on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst, C-392/19, an important case concerning contractual restrictions to linking under EU copyright law (on that occasion, I also updated my linking table: see... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/book-review-transformation-of-eu.html There are still some weeks of summer left, and so, if you are searching for the perfect (IP) read, this Kat has the pleasure to introduce you to ‘The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law’, by Andrea Zappalaglio (Routledge, 2021). The book looks at the evolution of the origin... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/do-trade-secrets-matter-it-is-not-at.html What happens when trade secrets meet the stock market? Emeritus Katonomist Nicola Searle, and her colleague, Andy Vivian, in addressing this question, suggest some potentially surprising insights. IP matters. Or, at least, IP should matter to companies. But what if markets didn’t really care about IP? What if IP... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/guestpost-opinion-patent-trolling.html Merpel does not like this form of taxi Friend of the Kat and Legal Head of Delivery for Gett in Moscow, Konstantin Voropaev has been following some developments out of Kazakhstan relating to an uptick in litigation in the taxi-app space. Over to Konstantin for the story and his take on the... Continue reading
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