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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-practitioners-guide-to.html What is genuinely European in European Patent Law? Is there a common set of rules or understandings related to topics such as indirect infringement, equivalents, exhaustion, damages and joint ownership? To say that answering these questions in one book is challenging would be grossly underestimating the task. Paul England... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/tunein-to-sound-of-communication-to.html As Eleonora informed us in this Katpost here – the UK Courts have weighed in on communication to the public, in what the court called “a test case” about infringement of copyright in sound recordings accessed via an online platform that connects users to radio stations around the world.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/tunein-to-sound-of-communication-to_10.html As set out in Part 1 of this post here, Mr Justice Birss found that (most of) the services of TuneIn Radio amount to an act of communication to the public of the relevant works of Warner Music and Sony Music. TuneIn infringes the copyright of Warner Music and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/around-ip-blogs.html Welcome to 2020! Here’s what happened around the IP blogs while you were digital detoxing over eggnog. Mittens is casually easing into another decade of IP bloggingSource: Cats are on top End of the year (and decade) content Patent industry insiders shared their Christmas wishlists on IP Watchdog. Their... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/reader-discount-for-ipkat-book-award.html Following the announcemet of the nominations and winners of the 2019 IPKat book of the year awards here, Oxford University Press have kindly offered to provide IPKat readers with a discount on their titles that were included. Each of the following winning and nominated titles are now available for... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-year-same-creative-authorship.html As 2019 faded and 2020 rose, the US Copyright Office Review Board affirmed two registration refusals; both concerned the attempted registration of layouts used in digital platforms. One regarded a mobile app to monitor energy usage, the other concerned the form of a web application displaying the various procedures... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/sheeran-v-chokri-part-2-admission-of.html Readers may remember the case of Ed Sheeran and Sam Chokri, discussed by this Kat back in August 2018 here. The case is still on going and the most recent hearing before Mr Justice Nugee took place on the 9th December 2019 in the High Court of England and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/trademark-infringement-and-google-pla.html Kat friend Markus Rouvinen shares his thoughts on the possible legal status of product listing ads (PLA’s) The fundamentals of trademark infringement in relation to traditional keyword advertising in the EU have largely been settled. However, more complex and increasingly common types of search engine advertising, such as comparison-shopping... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/aippi-uk-event-report-roundup-of-2019s.html The AmeriKat peering into 2020 and whatthis year’s patent cases will hold… While the AmeriKat was coughing herself across the Atlantic home for Christmas, other IP lawyers were making their ways across London’s twinkle light illuminated pavements to AIPPI’s annual Patent Round-Up held at Hogan Lovells’ London office. The... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/sale-of-second-hand-goods-not-genuine.html On the 13th December 2019, Mr Justice Mann delivered his judgement of Aiwa Co. Ltd V Aiwa Corp in the UK High Court. This was an appeal from the UK Trade Mark Registry, a decision of the hearing officer delivered on 4th February 2019, concerning the issue of whether... Continue reading
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