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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/copyright-law-issues-on-us-supreme.html While the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is on its summer recess, IPKat looks closer at the copyright cases that await it in the next term. Cases on the Merits U. S. Supreme Court In Allen v. Cooper, SOTUS will consider whether Congress, when it enacted the Copyright... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/four-rings-to-rule-them-all-german.html If you picture an Audi, you likely imagine some type of car with four interlocking rings on the radiator grille [a symbol of the merger of the four automobile manufacturers Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer in 1932]. It is thus safe to assume that a radiator grille built for... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/around-ip-blogs_19.html Whether you are recovering from the holidays or still enjoying them, the world of IP keeps turning! Here is a round up of some of the news going around the IP blogosphere…. It’s a big world out there… Patents The Kluwer Patent Blog provides coverage of VMI Holland v. Safe-Run... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/monday-miscellany.html Coco wrote too many papers this summer The IPKat leisurely stalked the IP world all week and found some delicious KatFood for thought. Events Evening with UNION-IP Mr António Campinos, President of the European Patent Office, will be making his first official address to a UK audience on Thursday,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/when-tiger-loses-its-teeth-applying.html Kat friend Jolena Ang from Singapore reports on an interesting trademark opposition involving both word mark and device mark elements. In Tiger Coatings GMBH & Co. KG v Seng Fong Paints Pte Ltd [2019] SGIPOS 10, the Applicant, Seng Fong Paints Pte Ltd, applied to register the following marks... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/makeup-palette-protection-granted-to.html Lookalike products pose a concern for many a famous brand, and many forms of legal action may be brought in efforts to quell this, from trade mark infringement to passing off and, also, copyright infringement. When it comes to makeup palettes, pursuit of a copyright infringement claim may be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/repurposing-patented-products-inking.html Kat friend Tyrone Berger has provided us with a report about the latest judicial treatment in Australia of an implied license in connection with a patent litigation action. For many jurisdictions, the issue of repurposing a patented product is an issue of exhaustion. Not so in Australia, where, as... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-first-ai-inventor-ipkat-searches.html As has been recently widely reported (BBC, Financial Times and The Times), a number of patent applications have been filed designating a machine learning (ML) algorithm as an inventor. The aim of the applications appears to kickstart a conversation on how patent law could be changed to take account of AI... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/irish-supreme-court-in-merck-v-clonmel.html The AmeriKat hiding from work-relatedintruders in the Castello’s garden Right at the end of July, came big news from the Irish Supreme Court in Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp v Clonmel Healthcare Ltd 2019 IESC 65. The case concerned the launch of a generic version of an ezetimibe/simvastatin combination drug... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/copyright-infringement-in-iron-pipes.html The latest copyright decision of the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal, given on 15 July 2019 (PMT 14029-16), concerns the use of a film (recorded through a mobile phone) as well as the use of photos extracted from the film sequence by a TV channel. The issue... Continue reading
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