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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-review-reasonable-robot-artificial.html In the description of The Reasonable Robot, Artificial Intelligence and the Law by Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey) it says: Abbott argues that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behaviour and proposes a new legal principle that will ultimately improve human well-being. This Kat was intrigued to... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/two-arnolds-for-price-of-one-part-1.html Lord Justice Arnold’s work-rate is the stuff of legend, so it is perhaps unsurprising that we have recently been treated to not one, but two, Court of Appeal judgments delivered by Arnold LJ, on the same day. Both cases relate to confidential information, a relatively unloved (but often hugely valuable)... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/aidan-robson-1960-2020.html Aidan Robson (1960-2020) It was with great sadness that the IPKat has learned of the death of patent attorney, Aidan Robson, on 20 September 2020 from a heart attack. Aidan was a well-known figure in the patent community in the UK and abroad. Fresh from his MSc at Oxford... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/wednesday-whimsies_28.html This Kat is feeling whimsical Welcome to this week’s bountiful crop of IP events and opportunities. Webinars The British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association is hosting a webinar discussing the potential impact of recent CJEU privacy decisions on copyright law tomorrow, 29 October 2020. For details of speakers and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-review-special-protection-of-trade.html Trade marks with a reputation (TMwR) in the EU and the additional layers of protection provided to them, like the famous trade mark regimes in other jurisdictions in general, is a controversial subject surrounded by unresolved problems of ambiguity and uncertainty that, sometimes, involves political databases over, for instances,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_24.html This Kat is looking forward to the clocks changing As ever, it’s never too late to catch up on last week’s IPKat posts. Trade Marks GuestKat Nedim Malovic summarised a recent decision of the EUIPO Fourth Board of Appeal in respect of the likelihood of confusion between certain football-themed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/not-toothless-prohibition-even-implicit.html 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 opportunity to clarify the boundaries of this provision in a case involving a patent related to tooth replacement... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-threat-to-trust-will-certification.html Pandemics may have long-term consequences. One such early outbreak, the sixth century Plague of Justinian, severely weakened both the Sasanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire, which in turn contributed a century later to the rapid expansion of Islam. The death toll from the Black Death of the 14th century... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/hague-district-court-grants-cross.html Conventional wisdom says that the Dutch courts favour a pragmatic and commercial approach to patent litigation, allowing, where they can, patentees to effectively obtain cross-border injunctions against multiple defendants. In a recent decision dated 29 September 2020, the Hague District Court once again proved this conventional wisdom to be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/wednesday-whimsies.html On December 10, join our PermaKat Eleonora Rosati and Giulia Gasparin at the new Fashion Law London online event, “Fashion Renaissance: A Unique Year in Review”. The topics covered include recent fashion-related IP developments; licensing, marketing and image in an ever-more digital fashion marketplace; enforcement challenges and opportunities for... Continue reading
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