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BREAKING: Board of Appeal in T1807/15 continues with ViCo oral proceedings referral

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/board-of-appeal-in-t180715-continues.html The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) referral from T1807/15 concerns the legality of oral proceedings conducted via Video Conferencing (ViCo) without the consent of all parties (IPKat). There was some doubt as to whether the referral would actually go ahead, given that the party requesting the referral had already withdrawn their request. The... Continue reading
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Monday Miscellany

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/monday-miscellany.html Let’s have a look at some events to fill your diary with… Let’s add “be lazy” to my diary… Webinars The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding invites you to attend the Fourth Annual Intellectual Property Awareness Summit on the 28th and 29thof April 2021. This year’s theme is ‘Intellectual... Continue reading
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Book review: Global Mandatory Fair Use

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/book-review-global-mandatory-fair-use.html This Kat is delighted to bring you a book review of Global Mandatory Fair, the Nature and Scope of the Right to Quote Copyright Works by Tanya Aplin, King’s College London and Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge. In this book, Aplin and Bently argue that global mandatory fair... Continue reading
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New Fashion Law London event entirely devoted to sustainability coming up with IPKat readers’ discount

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/new-fashion-law-london-event-entirely.html Readers may be aware that, together with Giulia Gasparin, I am also currently involved in Fashion Law London, an initiative that was born in 2019 to create opportunities of study and discussion, mostly from an IP and IT law perspective, for all those interested in this emerging field of... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Jaguar goes after replica car manufacturer for copyright infringement

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-jaguar-goes-after-replica.html In a recent case concerning a replica of the Jaguar C-Type sportscar, the Swedish Patent and Market Court was asked to decide, among other things, whether this model, which was created in the UK in 1951, enjoyed copyright protection in Sweden in 2021. Katfriend Hans Eriksson (Westerberg & Partners) has analysed... Continue reading
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Mr Justice Mellor in toy land orders single liability and quantum trial in Cabo v MGA toy battle

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/mr-justice-mellor-in-toy-land-orders.html The AmeriKat playing with herspherical toy while considering how many patents judgesmake a full Court The first three months of 2021 have so far been pretty active for the UK Patents Court. With now two specialist Patents Court judges installed in the form of Mr Justice Mellor and Mr Justice... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_14.html Copyright Eleonora Rosati reviewed a recent decision from the Spanish Supreme Court concerning the protectability of bullfighting by copyright. Having applied the Court of Justice’s practice in Cofemel and Levola Hengelo [see Katposts here and here], the Supreme Court considered that a bullfight does not qualify as a work,... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/around-ip-blogs_14.html This Kat is springing into action Another week, another roundup of IP-related news and views. Patents FOSS Patents presented a criticism of alleged structural shortcomings in the current German patent injunction reform process, including the bill’s potential differential impact on different industries. Keeping with the German theme, JUVE Patent... Continue reading
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EPO declares eEQE format went “very smoothly”, but do candidates agree?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/epo-declares-eeqe-format-went-very.html Last week the European Qualifying Exams (EQEs) for patent attorneys were held online for the first time. The EPO has now released a statement, declaring the digital EQE a “success”. The considerable achievement of getting the eEQE up and running in time for the exams this year should be... Continue reading
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Jeff Koons loses (again) in France: his Fait d’Hiver found to infringe copyright in Franck Davidovici’s own Fait d’Hiver

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/jeff-koons-loses-again-in-france-his.html A little over a year ago, The IPKat reported on the then fresh decision of the Paris Court of Appeal, which had upheld the decision at first instance in a copyright infringement case originally brought by the estate of photographer Jean-François Bauret against the well-known (also to copyright litigators) US artist... Continue reading