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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/ip-education-series-6.html This Kat is excited to introduce the latest instalment in the IP Education Series [previous episodes: Intro, #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5]. This time, it’s over to Dr Sabine Jacques from the University of East Anglia for her account of how she has made IP learning (even more!) fun: IntangAbility: using gamification in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/around-ip-blogs_28.html Enjoying a run around the blogs! It’s the last weekend of February and time for a run…a run around the IP Blogs! Patents When is a late inventive step attack allowed on appeal? Kluwer Patent Blog reports on two decisions which were recently issued on the admissibility of late... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/how-do-you-determine-novelty-of-second.html Here on IPKat we are used to discussing the patentability of second-medical use inventions. But what about non-medical second uses? The recently published Board of Appeal decision T 1385/15 related to the patentability of such a second use. According to case law from the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA), a... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/conference-report-intellectual-property.html Each year, the first days of February or so are the occasion for this Kat to travel to his former home town and spend a day on the benches of the University of Geneva, listening to thought-provoking IP discussions at the traditional Journée de droit de la propriété intellectuelle... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/breaking-news-uk-will-not-participate.html The writing was on the wall. Despite warm words from the UPC Preparatory Committee and the European Parliament, it seems that the status of the UK’s participation in the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court system has progressed (regressed?) from “in significant doubt” to “not on your nelly”. For... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/guest-post-functionality-cumulation-and.html A few days, The IPKat reported and commented on the Opinion of Advocate General (AG) Campos Sánchez-Bordona in Brompton Bycicle, C-833/18, a referral concerning copyright protection of functional shapes. The IPKat is now pleased to host this guest commentary by Ilanah Fhima (UCL). An extended version of her article... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/wednesday-whimsies.html Important information for EQE Candidates IPKat has heard from Katfriends that some EQE candidates in the UK have discovered only this week that their exam location is Munich, not Walsall. The candidates were not sent any specific notification, and noticed it only on logging into the My EQE portal... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/book-review-cambridge-handbook-of.html This book review is kindly provided by Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, who is a PhD Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in the framework of EIPIN Innovation Society program funded by the European Commission (H2020- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action) and member of the Spanish IP blog lvcentinvs.es. Here’s the review: Prof.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/nothing-to-see-here-lilly-wins-in_26.html When it comes to the validity of European patents, the national courts of the EPC member states apply the same law as the EPO. None-the-less, UK judges sometimes come to different conclusions to that of the EPO. As a consequence, a patent granted and maintained by the EPO may... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-swedish-patent-and-market-court-of.html In its ruling of 19 December (2019 here), the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal rejected the appeal of Allergan concerning the application for a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) for its product botulinumtoxin type A. The Court denied as well the request for a preliminary ruling regarding the... Continue reading
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