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Study on the implications of a 25-year reversion/termination right in Canada

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/study-on-implications-of-25-year.html Currently, the Canadian government is considering implementing two legislative proposals concerning a 25-year reversion right for authors. Section 14(1) of the Canadian Copyright Act currently provides that the copyright in a work reverts automatically to the author’s estate twenty-five years after the author’s death. The operation of the present... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Fashion Law London: The Spring/Summer Collection – Event report

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/guest-post-fashion-law-london.html On 28 February last, the third fashion law event organized by Fashion Law London took place in Central London. Megan Curzon (Bird & Bird) and Clara Chasles (Freshfields) were in attendance and now report on what happened that day. Here’s what Megan and Clara write: Fashion Law London: The Spring/Summer... Continue reading
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Has Skidmore v Led Zeppelin changed US music copyright infringement rules for better or worse?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/has-skidmore-v-led-zeppelin-changed-us.html The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeal [in a 73 page judgement!] has upheld the verdict that Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven‘ did not infringe the copyright of the song ‘Taurus’. The case on Appeal involved a number of copyright issues, including the standards for infringement, the interplay between... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunday-surprises.html On a sunny Sunday morning in South Africa, this Kat brings you the latest news on all IP must-do’s! Conferences The European Copyright Society Conference will host its annual conference on 15 May 2020 in Karlsruhe. ‘Fundamental Rights and Copyright in the European Multi-Layer Legal System’ is a topic... Continue reading
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The broader teachings of the CJEU ‘Fack Ju Göhte’ decision: trade marks, freedom of expression, and … other IP rights

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-broader-teachings-of-cjeu-fack-ju.html In late February, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its long-awaited [the Opinion of Advocate General (AG) Bobek, on which see here, had been released in July 2019] judgment in Constantin Film, C-240/18 P, aka the Fack Ju Göhte case concerning the interpretation of the... Continue reading
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House of Lords EU subcommittee: Is the UK Government’s rejection of the UPC “cutting off its nose to spite its face”?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/house-of-lords-eu-subcommittee-is-uk_13.html Last month, the UK Government revealed that the UK would not seek membership of the Unitary Patent Court (UPC). News of the UK Government’s position filtered out slowly. The first indications came in the form of the UK’s Brexit negotiating objectives. These objectives established the UK government’s “red line” that the UK will... Continue reading
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CJEU upholds Burlington Arcade’s grounds of appeal against Burlington trade mark applications

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/cjeu-upholds-burlington-arcades-grounds.html Last week marked the end of a lengthy battle between Tulliallan Burlington (‘Tulliallan’), proprietor of the high class shopping arcade in central London, ‘Burlington Arcade’, and German Fashion GmbH (‘BF’). The dispute arose in response to the latter’s application for registration of the word mark ‘Burlington’ and other figurative... Continue reading
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Conference Report: CIPIL 2020 (Part 2)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/conference-report-cipil-2020-part-2.html This Kat hopes you enjoyed the first instalment of her coverage of CIPIL 2020. We now turn to the second half of the conference. After lunch, the discussion turned to Precision Medicine, Drug Repurposing & the Next Steps for Competition Law, with perspectives from academia. Dr Mateo Aboy (University... Continue reading
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Crown use defence successful in telecom patent infringement case

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/crown-use-defence-successful-in-telecom.html In its ruling of 28 January 2020 (2020) EWHC 132 (Pat) (read here), Justice Douglas Campbell QC of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled in favor of the crown use defence in a case of alleged infringement of patent EP (UK) 2,579,666 B1, entitled “Allocation... Continue reading
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Conference Report: CIPIL 2020 (Part 1)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/03/conference-report-cipil-2020-part-1.html Chaired and introduced by Lord Justice Richard Arnold, this year’s edition of the Annual Spring Conference organised by the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge addressed the question: ‘Is IP Good for Our Health?’. It would appear that Prof Lionel Bently (CIPIL) chose... Continue reading