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Celebrating World IP Day with Topodo.co

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/celebrating-world-ip-day-with-topodoco.html Today’s World IP Day and the 80th birthday celebration of IP giant Sir Robin Jacob. The IPKat is pleased to mark this year’s festivities by helping unveil Topodo.co, brought to our readers by EUIPO’s Arnaud Folliard-Monguiral. Arnaud explains what it is all about: Who is Topodo.co? This is the stage... Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos loses trade mark battle at the EU General Court

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/jeff-bezos-loses-trade-mark-battle-at.html In an interesting decision earlier this year, the General Court upheld the EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal’s decision regarding a likelihood of confusion between the Bezos Family Foundation’s application for EU trade mark (EUTM) registration of ‘VROOM’, the name of a global programme aimed at facilitating early brain development,... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_25.html Trade marks GuestKat Riana Harvey analysed a recent decision from the England and Wales High Court (EWHC) in Swatch AG v Apple Inc. This case revolved around Swatch’s trade mark applications for “SWATCH ONE MORE THING” and “ONE MORE THING”. The phrase, “One more thing”, is also known as... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/sunday-surprises_25.html Whooohoooo! This Kat is so excited for this week – it’s World IP Day!World IP Day Surprise! Tomorrow we’ll be celebrating the World IP Day, with a colourful project playing with, and often distorting, concepts of IP law.An original tribute to IP you shouldn’t miss! Webinars The Institute for... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/around-ip-blogs_25.html This Kat is enlightened With warmer temperatures ahead, it’s time to look back on last week’s developments from around the IP blogs. Copyright The buzz around non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in recent months continues unabated, with a post on the Kluwer Copyright Blog about the role of copyright law and... Continue reading
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‘Peppa Pig’ has for the first time been recognised as a well-known trade mark in China

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/peppa-pig-has-for-first-time-been.html ‘Peppa Pig’ is a British preschool animated television series whose charm has extended well beyond the UK and gained millions of fans. China is no exception. There, Peppa Pig is known as 小猪佩奇. In April 2019, Entertainment One UK Limited (‘E-One UK’, owner of Peppa Pig) spotted a product,... Continue reading
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Book Review: The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Under International Investment Law

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/book-review-protection-of-intellectual.html This Kat has had the pleasure to review “The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Under International Investment Law”, co-authored by Simon Klopschinski, Christopher Gibson and Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan (Oxford University Press, 2021, 592 p.). The book discusses the treatment of intellectual property rights in the context of investor-state dispute... Continue reading
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Board of Appeal relies on its own CGK to support an inventive step objection without remittal to first instance (T 1370/15)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/board-of-appeal-relies-on-its-own-cgk.html In recent years it has become increasingly difficult for parties to introduce new facts and evidence in appeal procedures before the EPO Boards of Appeal. The same stringent procedures do not apply to the Boards of Appeal themselves. In the recently published decision T 1370/15, the Board of Appeal introduced... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/around-ip-blogs_17.html This Kat is pondering green vs white asparagus As this Kat sees Germany gearing up for Spargel (asparagus) season, an equally exciting harvest can be found around the IP blogs. Copyright The news which lit up the IP blogosphere last week was indisputably the US Supreme Court’s ruling in... Continue reading
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UCL IBIL Event: A Conversation with Professor Sir Robin Jacob

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/04/ucl-ibil-event-conversation-with.html What more of an honor could an IP lawyer have but to share their birthday with World IP Day? That enjoyable coincidence is at least shared by Sir Robin Jacob who is celebrating this World IP Day on 26 April, with an event organized by UCL’s Institute of Brand... Continue reading