• Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_29.html If you were too busy enjoying the opening ceremony and first days of the 2024 Olympic Games, then join this Kat in reading the summary of what you missed on The IPKat! Trade Marks Gif by Riana Harvey Marcel Pemsel reported on the recent decision of the Higher Regional... Continue reading

     
  • Sunday Surprises

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/sunday-surprises.html With the summer season heating up, the IPKat brings news of the latest IP events and opportunities! Chief of the Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies Unit at WTO. Let the summer begin! The World Trade Organization seeks to recruit the Chief of the newly created Digital Trade and Frontier... Continue reading

     
  • The simple math of adidas v Nike: Two stripes are not three stripes

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-simple-math-of-adidas-v-nike-two.html There is no doubt that the threes stripes of adidas are a famous trade mark. The simplicity of the sign brings challenges and raises the questions of its scope of protection. The Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf had to decide whether five different trousers from Nike with different stripe... Continue reading

     
  • Happy 30th birthday, EU Plant Variety Rights Regulation!

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/happy-30th-birthday-eu-plant-variety.html The EU Regulation on Community plant variety rights is celebrating its 30th birthday today! This is a significant milestone for the Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994, also known as the “Basic Regulation,” which established the unitary intellectual property right for plant varieties. An important birthday A Kat... Continue reading

     
  • [Guest post] Fanatics about trade mark infringement, cancellation and honest concurrent use in Australia

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/guest-post-fanatics-about-trade-mark.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Kimberley Evans (Pearce IP) regarding a recent Australian decision concerning inter alia the honest concurrent use and own name defences under Australian trade mark law. Here’s what Kimberley writes: Fanatics about trade mark infringement, cancellation... Continue reading

     
  • [UPCKat] UPC Court of Appeal’s PI ruling leaves open the possibility of using prosecution history as an aid for claim construction

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/upckat-upc-court-of-appeals-pi-ruling.html As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat continues its series of reports that analyze the development of preliminary injunction case law from the UPC. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKats Agathe Michel-de Cazotte, Hiske Roos and Laura Mikkelsen and members from the team at Carpmaels we... Continue reading

     
  • Book review: Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/book-review-enforcing-intellectual.html What better way to start the summer than by reading an intellectual property book. This time, this Kat had the opportunity to review Jane Lambert’s book “Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide for Businesses, Innovative and Creative Individuals”, published earlier this year in its latest edition. Structure of... Continue reading

     
  • [Guest post] Germany: The House of Birkenstock – rise and fall under copyright law?

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/guest-post-germany-house-of-birkenstock.html Hopefully not standing on sweaty 🤢 Birkenstocks  The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Henning Hartwig (Bardehle Pagenberg) on the ‘House of Birkenstock’ and the various IP rights they tried over time, including trade dress law, design law, and copyright law, with... Continue reading

     
  • Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_23.html Join this new InternKat on her first post to catch up on what you might have missed!  Tuesday Tiddlywinks Eleonora Rosati reported on various upcoming events and conferences in Bergen, Santiago de Chile, and London. Also, don’t forget to check the news she reported if you are a copyright... Continue reading

     
  • [Guest post] Harmonized technical standards under EU copyright: the Public.Resource.Org judgment

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/harmonized-technical-standards-under-eu.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Sunimal Mendis (Tilburg University) and Olia Kanevskaia (Utrecht University) on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C-588/21 P Public.Resource.Org, concerning copyright protection of technical standards and access to public... Continue reading