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SIPLR Event: IP in the Digital Environment

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/siplr-event-ip-in-digital-environment.html Since its creation in 2018, the Stockholm Intellectual Property Law Review (SIPLR) has held an annual conference, inviting prominent speakers in the IP field to discuss current issues of import. This year, this Kat is delighted to be involved in its organisation as Co-Chief Editor of SIPLR, alongside Kats... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_8.html One cat leads to another Patents GuestKat Léon Dijkman analysed the decision of the Hague Court of Appeal in Eli Lily and Company v. Fresenius Kabi Nederland B. V. involving an infringement claim of Eli Lily’s pemetrexed patents. This decision sets out the Dutch approach to the doctrine of... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/around-ip-blogs_8.html This Kat uses IP to innovate With the end of another week, it’s time to take a look around the IP blogs. Copyright Can typeface design be protected by copyright in the US, and are advances in technology changing that position? The Fashion Law considered these questions. Anyone unwilling... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/sunday-surprises.html Here are some events for you to keep your diary full… Webinars The IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network is pleased to announce the Third IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference, which will be held ONLINE on 24-27 March 2021. Researchers, including Ph.D. candidates,... Continue reading
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The search for zombie trademarks: a continental EU perspective

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-search-for-zombie-trademarks.html Kat friends are a diverse lot, with a variety of exotic IP interests. For Kat friend, Carlo Sala, this includes the search for zombie marks, as he describes below. In voodoo practice, a zombie is a corpse brought back to life by some supernatural power. I am unaware whether,... Continue reading
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Interview with the new Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/interview-with-new-chief-executive-of.html On 1 August 2020, Mrs. Rena Lee was named the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). IPKat is delighted that Mrs. Lee has agreed to be interviewed in connection with her appointment. 1. Hello Mrs. Lee, and thank you for the interview. Perhaps you can... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/around-ip-blogs.html Beauty is in the eye of the (cat) beholder Patents The Patently-O Blog featured a guest post by Profs. Jorge L. Conteras and Yang Yu, who discussed the impact of China’s new anti-suit injunctions (namely, an injunction issued by a national judicial authority, which prevents parties to litigate in... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html Before we start the new week, let’s see what the Kats were up to last week… PATENTS Art. 53(c) EPC prohibits the grant of European patents in respect of “methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery“. The EPO Boards of Appeal recently had the... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] How can the AfCFTA advance transformative industrialisation? – Event Report

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/guest-post-how-can-afcfta-advance.html The IPKat is pleased to publish this report from Charlene Musiza, who attended the first session in the webinar series organised by University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance on “How can the AfCFTA Advance Transformative Industrialisation?” Coming a day before the World Trade Organization’s (WTO)... Continue reading
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Hague Court of Appeal sets Dutch approach to equivalence, reversing District Court in pemetrexed saga

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/hague-court-of-appeal-sets-dutch.html Hot off the press is a decision by the Hague Court of Appeal (CoA) of 27 October 2020 handing Eli Lilly another win in its pan-European battle over infringement of its pemetrexed patents [here, in Dutch]. Eli Lilly’s patent enforcement campaign has resulted in numerous decisions, including landmark rulings... Continue reading