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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/around-ip-blogs.html Did you survive the hottest days of the year (at least in some parts of Europe) and still want to know what is happening in the IP blogosphere?Let’s find out it in this new edition of Around the IP blogs, which has a special focus on non-conventional trade marks,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/never-too-late.html A bumper Never too Late for you, including the summary of a number of important recent cases. Copyright Katfriend Sami Sunila summarised the recent judgement issued by the Finnish Market Court in whether collecting societies have standing to sue for copyright infringement and do internet access providers commit acts of communication to the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/event-report-cipa-seminar-on-revised.html On Monday, this Kat escaped the London heatwave by retreating to the pleasantly air conditioned offices of Kilburn & Strode LLP and the patent event in town: CIPA’s seminar on the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) of the EPO. The seminar was the first since the approval... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/enlarged-board-of-appeal-opinion-on-g.html The EPO has issued a press release on the opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 1/18. The referral related to the question of whether, where a notice of appeal is filed after expiry of the time limit for filing an appeal (Article 108 EPC), an appeal... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-trademark-question-that-never-stops.html Kat friend Shawn Poon from Singapore discusses a recent decision there that tackles one of the perennially vexing issues of trademark law, namely when does a variant form of a registered mark not count as use. In The Patissier LLP v Aalst Chocolate Pte Ltd [2019] SGIPOS 10, the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/sir-henry-carr-qc-1958-2019.html Mr Justice Henry Carr, regaling us with storiesof the history of Anton Piller orders and tradesecrets at the Rolls Building in 2017 “Isn’t it much simpler than that?”, Henry remarked. It was never really a question, more of a gentle statement to the other person that they were making... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/copyright-infringement-confirmed-but-no.html Last year, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled upon referral by the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) that the unauthorized reposting of a copyright work that is already available online constitutes an act of communication to the public within the meaning of Art. 3(1)... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-review-discount-sir-hugh-laddie.html Readers may remember that back in May, AmeriKat told the story of the Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture which brings the leading minds in IP law to address an always packed auditorium on the latest IP challenges, opportunities and analysis. The lecture series is organised by Professor Sir Robin... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/monday-miscellany_22.html Lying in the sun but at the same time curious about events and new possibilities in the IP world? This post is what you are looking for … But before delving too deeply into it … Praise of The IPKat The IPKat is honoured (and flattered!) to report that... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/07/rome-court-finds-videosharing-platform.html A few days ago, the Rome Court of First Instance (Tribunale di Roma) issued what might be one of the first, if not the first decision (RG 24711-2012, decision 14757/2019) in Europe, which has found a hosting provider – other than piracy-focused ones like The Pirate Bay – directly... Continue reading
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