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Pandemic measures cease but ViCo Boards of Appeal oral proceedings continue

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/pandemic-measures-cease-but-vico-boards.html The EPO has announced the cessation of pandemic measures. The announcement (here) states that going forward it will now be at the discretion of individual Boards of Appeal to summon parties to and conduct oral proceedings either in person or by VICO. The EPO has also launched a user... Continue reading
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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/when-is-ip-agreement-between-university.html In its last judgment of 2022, the Patents Court issued a decision in the case of Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat)). In this 650-paragraph judgement, the court ruled that students can in certain situations be “consumers” vis a vis the university under... Continue reading
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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_26.html A remarkably focused Kat If you missed last week’s IP posts, this is the perfect time to catch up. Copyright Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk unpacked the major legislative changes brought by the new Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights, adopted in December 2022. Neil Wilkof focused on... Continue reading
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What principles should guide African governments in realising the right to research in Africa?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-principles-should-guide-african.html In The right to research, Appadurai made the argument to “recognise that research is a specialised name for a generalised capacity, the capacity to make disciplined inquiries into those things we need to know, but do not know yet”. Since then, various scholars have aligned with the same or... Continue reading
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[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/guest-post-new-law-on-copyright-and.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following legislative update on the new Ukrainian Copyright Law from Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk (both Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv). Here’s what Kateryna and Liubov write: New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights by Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk... Continue reading
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Book Review: A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law (with a discount code)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-review-practitioners-guide-to.html This Kat is delighted to review “A Practitioner’s Guide to European Patent Law: For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court” (Hart Publishing, 2022, 664 pp.). The book, now in its second edition, is authored by Paul England, with contributions from several other authors, including our former GuestKat Peter... Continue reading
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The most consequential actor in the most consequential movie that you may never have heard of: the Lulu franchise, Louise Brooks, and “Pandora’s Box”

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-most-consequential-actor-in-most.html The cross-media creative franchise (think “Wonder Woman”, from comics to film), is the apotheosis of the commercial potential of derivative works within the copyright system. Here, there, and everywhere, the celluloid adaptation of previously created contents is so 21st century. But the cross media franchise is hardly a modern... Continue reading
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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2022 winners announced!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/ipkat-book-of-year-awards-2022-winners.html Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2022! Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Related Innovation: Fit for Future? By Michael Andreas Kock Once Upon a Time, The Patent: Understanding... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/sunday-surprises_22.html We’re two thirds there… through January! Here are the latest opportunities and events. Events HCO Scientific Event: “Digital Services Act (DSA) and Copyright” (register by 23 Jan) The Hellenic Copyright Organisation is organising a scientific event on the topic “Digital Services Act and Copyright – A new balance in... Continue reading
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How do you cancel degenerated trade marks?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/01/how-do-you-cancel-degenerated-trade.html It happens that sometimes trade marks get registered although they are non-distinctive. Both the EU Trade Mark Regulation and Directive provide for invalidity actions to cancel such marks upon request of any third party. However, if the trade mark has been registered for an extended period of time, it... Continue reading