• IPKat Reader Discount: UIC John Marshall Law School’s 64th Annual IP Conference

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/ipkat-reader-discount-uic-john-marshall.html Registration is now open for UIC John Marshall Law School’s 64th Annual Intellectual Property (IP) Conference on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. For the first time, it will be online and accessible to anyone from their office or at home. With over 80 conference faculty, 14 sessions, virtual receptions, and... Continue reading

     
  • Book Review: Law, Technology and Cognition

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/book-review-law-technology-and-cognition.html Our SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management, and the founder of World IP Women. She is also the author of a recent publication, Law, Technology and Cognition. The... Continue reading

     
  • Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_19.html This Kat has sufficiency (of mice) objections Welcome to the latest IPKat roundup, which should especially cheer fans of patent news and views. Patents Kodak’s most recent endeavours, by way of an announced pivot to generic pharmaceutical manufacturing thanks to a US government COVID-response loan, swiftly followed by an... Continue reading

     
  • Should a pseudonym be changed: George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, and the “Reclaim her Name” project

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/should-pseudonym-be-changed-george.html What’s in a pseudonym? When it comes to George Eliot and her 19th- century novel, Middlemarch, described by some as the greatest novel in the English language, the answer may about to change. This Kat remembers, having been conscripted in his high school English class to read the Victorian... Continue reading

     
  • No CJEU reference (yet) as Mannheim Court grants injunction in Nokia v Daimler in further return to old Orange Book days

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/no-cjeu-reference-yet-as-mannheim-court.html Which way next for Nokia v Daimler? In a slightly puzzling decision out of the Mannheim Regional Court’s Second Civil Chamber, an injunction potentially preventing sales of Mercedes vehicles in Germany has been issued. Its press release (in German) can be found here. The dispute in Case 2 O... Continue reading

     
  • Sunday Surprises

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/sunday-surprises.html A hungry cat Conferences  This year, the EPIP Conference will be held online from September 9th to 11th . The conference programme is available at the dedicated webpage. Participation is free of charge, but registration before September 5th is required.  The UIC John Marshall Law School will also held... Continue reading

     
  • Jaguar Land Rover loses trade mark battle over Land Rover Defender car series

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/jaguar-land-rover-loses-trade-mark.html In a recent decision, the High Court of Justice of England and Wales held that the shapes of the Land Rover Defender cars are not eligible for trade mark registration. In particular, it upheld the findings of the Hearing Officer of the UK Intellectual Property Officers (IPO) and considered... Continue reading

     
  • Around the IP Blogs

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/around-ip-blogs_15.html This Kat is enjoying a meeting of minds Welcome to another week of recent IP news and views, with a number of items this week considering different perspectives on fairness and balancing rights in IP.  Copyright The IP Watchdog has published a request for amici support in relation to... Continue reading

     
  • Never waste an opportunity? COVID-19 and Kodak

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/never-waste-opportunity-covid-19-and.html In today’s COVID-19 world, the granting of public funds for R&D and production is taking place at a feverish pace. For recipient companies, such sums are palpably welcome, even the more so when the recipient is yesterday’s technology success story trying to find new avenues for long-term survival. That... Continue reading

     
  • Untested hypothesis in a clinical trial protocol destroys novelty of a method of treatment claim in Australia (Mylan v Sun Pharma)

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/untested-hypothesis-in-clinical-trial.html The Australian courts have recently confirmed that an untested hypothesis in a clinical trial protocol is sufficient to destroy the novelty of a second medical use patent (Mylan v Sun Pharma ([2020] FCAFC 116). The sufficiency/obvious to try crevasse When to file is one of the most important decisions to be... Continue reading