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[Guest post] Retromark Volume VII: the last six months in trade marks

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/guest-post-retromark-volume-vii-last.html It’s time for the seventh volume of Retromark, Darren Meale (Simmons & Simmons)’s rundown of notable trade mark cases over the past six months. Over to Darren: Retromark Volume VII: the last six months in trade marks It’s now three years since I began Retromark, and we are on... Continue reading
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IP Education Series #7

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/ip-education-series-7.html For the final instalment in the IP Education Series [previous episodes: Intro, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 and #6], it’s over to Prof. Ruth Soetendorp to introduce two contributions, the first from Hannah Yates (UK Intellectual Property Office), and the second from Joe Sekhon (Portsmouth University). Prof. Soetendorp says… It has been a privilege to work with... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_16.html Looking at what happened in the IP world the last week, it is safe to say that it is not also in lockdown. See here for enjoyment… This African Kat in lockdown PATENTS China was, for the first time ever, the top filer of Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in... Continue reading
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Wednesday Whimsies

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/wednesday-whimsies.html This Kat is impatiently awaiting more webinars Another week, another instalment of IP miscellany! Events Firstly, we bring you the sad but necessary news of the cancellation of this year’s 28th Fordham IP Conference. While participants won’t be able to enjoy it this year, their registrations are being automatically... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] Sisvel v. Sun Cupid: a Dutch SEP injunction absent any counterclaim

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/guest-post-sisvel-v-sun-cupid-dutch-sep.html What is the minimum relief a SEP ownercould be entitled to in the Netherlands? From the Netherlands comes news of a decision of the Court of the Hague where last month it granted an injunction in a SEP infringement case where the defendants did not submit a defence or... Continue reading
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An address by any other name? AG Øe advises CJEU to rule that ‘address’ does not include email and IP addresses

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/an-address-by-any-other-name-ag-e.html Physical address Can a rightholder request, under Article 8(2)(a) of the Enforcement Directive, an online platform to provide personal contact details (more precisely: email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses) of users of such platform who have infringed its copyrights? This, in a nutshell, is the question at the... Continue reading
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[Guest post] The IP world in the time of Coronavirus – Episodes 1 to 3 of the Retromark: Live podcast

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/guest-post-ip-world-in-time-of.html There have been certain obvious impacts on the IP industry as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. In a series of Retromark: Live! podcasts, Katfriends Darren Meale (Simmons & Simmons) and Rosie Burbidge (gunnercooke) have brought a number of them to the attention of the IP community. In this... Continue reading
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Around the IP blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/around-ip-blogs.html Blending in with the easter bunny What can be better than a Sunday stuffed with easter eggs? A Sunday stuffed with easter eggs and IP news… Patents On 28 March 2020 amendments to Germany’s Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Humans (Gesetz zur Verhütung und... Continue reading
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WIPO: China becomes top filer of international patents in 2019

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/wipo-china-becomes-top-filer-of.html The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) press release on 7 April announced that China, for the first time ever, was the top filer of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) in 2019: With 58,990 applications filed in 2019 via WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System, China ended the U.S. (57,840... Continue reading
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EUIPO Boards of Appeal adopt set of unified Rules of Procedure

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/04/euipo-boards-of-appeal-adopt-set-of.html With Decision 2020-1 of 2020 of the Presidium of the Boards of Appeal on The Rules of Procedure before the Boards of Appeal, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has, for the first time in twenty years, agreed on a single comprehensive set of rules to be applied to... Continue reading