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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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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/monday-miscellany.html Conferences, webinars On September 6 to 8, WIPO is holding its biannual Worldwide Symposium on Geographical Indications (GIs), this time virtually. Attendance is free of charge and topics such as commercialization strategies for GIs, and challenges for GIs and the Internet Domain Name System, will be covered. Vacancies WIPO... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/artificial-intelligence-system-as.html Late last month, South Africa’s Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) became the first Patent Office in the world to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as the inventor of a product. In the application by Dr Thaler, an artificial intelligence system (AI system), which has been... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_01186008590.html This Kat isn’t quite surehow she got here Cometh the hour, cometh the roundup of last week on the IPKat. Trade marks GuestKat Nedim Malovic considered the meaning of bad faith pursuant to Article 59(1)(b) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation, following the EU General Court’s decision in Riviera-Airport v... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/gower-peninsula-lamb-flies-flag-for.html This Kat is, in fact, a sheep The first product to be protected under the UK’s post-Brexit Geographical Indication (GI) scheme, which came into effect on 1 January 2021, was announced on 11 August as Gower Salt Marsh Lamb. Meat produced from sheep born and reared on South Wales’s Gower Peninsula... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/ip-week-sg-2021.html In slightly over a decade, IP Week@ SG (ie., Singapore) has become a leading global IP event, bringing together thought leaders from Asia and across the world as they interact with diverse legal professionals, innovators and representatives from various IP bodies and organizations. In many ways, the flourishing of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/guest-post-german-court-copyright.html IPKat readers interested in copyright are well aware of how, over the past several years, the right of communication to the public has gained a top spot in litigation and case law. Former GuestKat Mirko Brüß analyzes a very interesting recent German decision, which has tackled the application of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/wipo-and-international-day-of-worlds.html The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has shared some news in connection with International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, celebrated on 9 August every year. Winners of the WIPO Short Story Competition on Indigenous Ingenuity and Creativity The winners of the WIPO Short Story Competition on Indigenous Ingenuity... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/new-referral-to-eba-on-use-of-post.html A Board of Appeal is about to refer questions to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) on the ability of a patentee to rely on post-published evidence to support the inventive step of a claim, and particularly to support the plausibility that the technical problem has been solved over the... Continue reading
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