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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/friday-fantasies_30.html September is just around the corner! With that in mind, here are some upcoming events and opportunities that may be of interest. August, where did you go… EventsOn the 18th-19th October 2019, the 6th Petar Šarčević Conference on ‘Intellectual Property Rights in the EU: Going Digital’ will be held in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/on-economic-analysis-of-ip-law.html This Kat just returned from vacationing in beautiful Minnesota where he enjoyed open water swimming, fried cheese curds and … a conversation on the law & economics of IP with Professor Tom Cotter. Cotter’s recent books include Comparative Patent Remedies (2013) and Patent Wars: How Patents Impact our Daily... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/enterprise-name-vs-trade-mark-throwing.html Yes, probably. Enterprise names in China In China, enterprise names must be composed in a specific format. The basic structure is shown below*: Enterprise name = Administrative division + trade name + industry + organisational form e.g. Hunan Valin Steel Co., Ltd. Compared to other countries, it would seem that China places... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_26.html In this edition of Never Too Late, we take a look back at what the IPKat has covered over the last two weeks, as summer begins to draw to a close… Enjoying summer whilst it lasts… Copyright – In Copyright infringement in the ‘iron pipes film’ case, GuestKat Frantzeska... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/what-we-can-learn-from-jane-austen-and.html History may not necessarily determine the current IP moment, but it certainly has the power to instruct. This is so, even in the most unlikely of circumstances—bringing together the publication sagas of Jane Austen and Ulysses S. Grant. Austen and U.S. President Grant never met. Austen died in Winchester,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/invitation-for-applications-for-shamnad.html It has been less than three weeks since the death of Shamnad Basheer, and his loss weighs heavily on many of us in the IP world. Against this pain, this Kat is honored to be able to inform Kat readers that the Association for Accessible Medicines, in collaboration with... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/thursday-thingies_22.html What Kat food does The IPKat serve you this week? Here it comes… This Kat is a food lover. Events Conference ‘Three Decades @ The Crossroads of IP, ICT and Law’ The KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) will hold a conference, ‘Three Decades @ The... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/uspto-amends-rules-requirement-of-us.html Are foreign applications for US trade marks under increasing scrutiny? A recent amendment to US trade mark application procedure seems to point to “Yes”: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office amends the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases, the Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/screenplay-litigation-in-nigeria-missed.html On 2 May 2019, the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria delivered its judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/740/2017 Raconteur Productions Limited v Dioni Visions Entertainment Limited and 2 Others (‘Raconteur’). This case concerned the question of copyright infringement of a screenplay produced into a feature film... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/guest-post-cheaper-by-dozen-two-further.html The IPKat has learned that two further cases have just been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the context of proceedings concerning the right of communication to the public under the InfoSoc Directive, the hosting safe harbour in Article 14 of the E-commerce... Continue reading
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