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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/book-review-forgotten-intellectual.html This book review was prepared by this Kat and Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, Scientific Coordinator for Innovation and IP Projects at the University of Alicante. In 1881, the later-to-be Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote in “The Common Law” as follows: “The life of the law has not been... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/sunday-surprises_31.html On this last day of January, I have a bowl full of Katfood to spoil you with… All this Katfood just for me – yummy! Blocking injunction in TPM circumvention case issued in Spain A few months ago, The IPKat hosted a post by PermaKat Eleonora reflecting on the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_31.html Sunday afternoon Copyright InternKat Sophie Corke shared her analysis of two recent judgments by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice concerning consent to media image use. In both cases, German celebrities sued local media for use without consent of their own image. The Court sided with both plaintiffs and affirmed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/guest-post-nigerian-companies-and.html In 2018, this Kat celebrated the passing of the Bill for an Act to repeal the Companies and Allied Matters Act 2004 (CAMA 2004) in a post, which addressed some aspects of the Bill that particularly affect IP and creative entrepreneurship. Now the Bill has been signed into law... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-goldfish-phone-booth-copyright-case.html Background Nobuki Yamamoto, a Japanese contemporary artist, made an eye-catching work of ‘goldfish swimming in a phone booth’ (‘Work 1’) by December 2000 at the latest. In October 2011, a student organisation called ‘Goldfish Club’ at Kyoto University of Art and Design produced Work 2 and exhibited it for... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/around-ip-blogs_27.html This Kat has had a revelation This Kat can hardly believe that it’s already the last week of an eventful January. What better way to unwind towards the end of the month than by catching up on developments from around the IP blogs? Copyright CREATe (University of Glasgow)... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/impact-of-proposed-eu-regulation-on.html Kat friend, Dr. Julia Hugendubel, describes the most recent developments concerning the EU Commission’s proposed Regulation on markets in crypto-assets and their possible impact for IP applications. Decentralised ledger technologies (DLT) such as blockchain are the object of broad international regulation efforts. Presumably motivated by Facebook’s Libra/Diem project, the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/general-court-affirms-minimal.html Oatly’s word mark at issue (Image: Oatly NL) Plant-based meat and dairy substitutes have frequently hit the news in recent months, with the EU General Court providing a boost to Oatly on 20 January 2021 by overturning a trade mark refusal decision by the EUIPO in Case T‑253/20. Background... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/will-last-entrepreneurial-person.html Is this the time that it really happens, when the Bay Area finally begins to lose its ability to attract and keep the critical mass of innovative employees necessary to maintain the region’s primacy in the hi-tech world? Is it really the time to ask: Will the last entrepreneurial... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/candian-federal-court-considers-whether.html A recent Canadian Federal Court decision (Teva v Pharmascience, 2020 FC 1158) adds yet further nuance to the critical question of when a second-medical use patent application should be filed. One option is to file as soon as the clinical trial gets under way, to avoid the very fact of the... Continue reading
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