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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/sunday-surprises.html Conferences On October 15-22, the 2021 AIPPI World Congress will take place, though once again online. Registration for the congress will open on June 1, 2021. In the meantime, the save-the-date is already on the AIPPI web-page. On October 21-22 2021, the 39th ECTA Annual Conference “Waltzing with IP”... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/linking-after-vg-bild-kunst-in-table.html A week ago, The IPKat reported and commented on the important decision of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst, C-392/19. In that judgment, the CJEU admitted the possibility for rightholders to restrict linking by contract, provided that any such... Continue reading
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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some doubt as to whether the referral would actually go ahead, given that the party requesting the referral had already withdrawn their request.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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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