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Never Too Late: If You Missed the IPKat

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat.html Rainy autumn nights are perfect for catching up on IPKat over a cup of tea (and ideally with a kat in your lap). Amirite? Mittens is all caught up with IPKatimage source: LA Times Patents Your input is needed! The recent hearing at the Intellectual Property subcommittee to the... Continue reading
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Ferrero succeeds in enforcing its rights in the Tic Tac container before Italian court

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/ferrero-succeeds-in-enforcing-its.html It was just a few months ago that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (BMB v Ferrero, C‑693/17 P) sided with well-known foodstuffs manufacturer Ferrero by upholding the invalidity of a registered Community design right for comfit boxes and containers pursuant to Article 25(1)(e) of Regulation No... Continue reading
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Wednesday Whimsies

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/wednesday-whimsies.html Thanks and all the bestMathilde! In this miscellany post, we update you on forthcoming events, report releases and calls for papers. But, before doing so, we unfortunately have to say goodbye to one of our GuestKats for the time being. Thanks and all the best Mathilde! Due to a... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/around-ip-blogs.html For anyone is reading this blog who is a fan of IP issues, this Kat delicately selected some interesting posts from other blogs to offer more information. You want to know what happened around the IP blogosphere recently? Well, let me begin… Patents Kluwer Patent blog reported on Ingve Björn Stjerna’s article on the issue of the compatibility of... Continue reading
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Can an employee’s freedom of expression trump their confidentiality obligations? The ECtHR weighs in (in a case concerning an employee’s personal website)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/can-employees-freedom-of-expression.html From confidentiality to disclosure in 3 Kat-steps(DIY instructions here) By reading the very interesting EU Law Live Blog, The IPKat has discovered an intriguing decision (Herbay v Hungary, Appl. No. 11608/15) that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued just a few days ago on the thorny issue of... Continue reading
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IPEC no longer London-focused as IP small claims track reaches courts in Newcastle, Manchester, Cardiff and beyond

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/ipec-no-longer-london-focused-as-ip.html The GeordieKat gets a scratch from IPEC asthe small claims track comes to town We are in full election campaigning mode here in the UK. At the start of campaigning last week the main political parties’s messaging was consistent on one thing – a renewed focus on the North... Continue reading
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“Weel done, Cutty-sark”–from poem to sailing ship to whisky: What’s in a name?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/weel-done-cutty-sark-from-poem-to.html “Weel done, Cutty-sark.” From the original meaning of the term in the Scots language, through its use by the poet Robert Burns, to its adoption as the name of one of the leading 19th century British tea ships and later as the trademark and brand of a popular Scotch... Continue reading
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Monday Miscellany

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/monday-miscellany.html Feeling the Monday blues? The IPKat has some treats to brighten up your day. EVENTS Developing and Least-Developed Countries and Intellectual Property Rights: Colonialist Features of the TRIPs Agreement Time: Tuesday, 19 November 2019, 4:45 – 7:30PM Place: Room 3.1, Centre For Commercial Law Studies, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London,... Continue reading
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Bentley Motors found to have infringed small clothing firm’s ‘Bentley’ trade marks

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/bentley-motors-found-to-have-infringed.html Bentley Motors’ ‘Combination Sign’ Can a small family-run company win in a battle of trade marks against a world renowned luxury car manufacturer such as Bentley Motors? The answer is ‘yes’, according to the ruling passed down at the beginning of November by His Honour Judge Hacon (sitting as a... Continue reading
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It may be the name of a fashion style, but is it trade mark use?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/11/ity-may-be-name-of-fashion-style-but-is.html Kat friend Tyrone Berger reports on a recent case in Australia that addresses the ever-vexing quetion of when use amounts to trade mark use. In the recent decision of Pinnacle Runway Pty Ltd v Triangl Ltd, the Australian Federal Court has found that the name given to a style... Continue reading