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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/friday-fantasies.html The IPKat brings you information regarding happenings in the world of IP this week: Events 2024 WIPO Global Awards WIPO announced the call for entries for the 2024 WIPO Global Awards, open from January 15 to March 31, 2024. This year, the competition welcomes startups, alongside small and medium-sized... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/ipkat-event-announcement-re-discovering.html IPKat copyright event on 14 March: you can attend in person … In late 2023, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales issued its judgment in THJ v Sheridan [2023] EWCA Civ 1354. Ruling on whether copyright would subsist in certain graphic user interfaces (GUIs), Lord Justice Arnold... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/euipo-ip-case-law-conference-returns-to.html Already in Alicante ready to get a tan discuss all things IP The IPKat has learned that the ever-popular IP Case-Law Conference organized and hosted by the EUIPO Boards of Appeal is returning for the fifth time to Alicante and online on 29 and 30 April 2024. Coinciding with... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/four-rings-on-car-grille-infringe-audis.html The use of trade marks of original equipment manufacturers for non-original spare parts and accessories is frequently the subject of court disputes. As reported here, the Advocate General (‘AG’) did not consider the sale of a non-original radiator grille with a mounting device taking the shape of the Audi... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html If you were barely holding on last week and didn’t stay up-to-date with the IP news, here’s the summary of what you missed. A Kat barely holding on.Image from Pexels. Hayleigh Bosher announced the nominees and winners of the IPKat Book of the Year 2023. Congratulations to all the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/01/wednesday-whimsies.html Here’s this week’s selection of opportunities and events for the IPKat community! Two webinars on trade secrets in the EU On February 8, the European Communities Trademark Association (ECTA) and the Bulgarian Patent Office will jointly host a webinar on the EU Trade Secrets Directive. The event will explore... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/01/pgi-canard-foie-gras-du-sud-ouest.html In a new evocation case (RG n° 21/16284), the Paris Court of Appeal has found that packaging of frozen food with such word elements as “Sud-Ouest”, “cooked with duck fat” and a duck picture are infringing the protected geographical indication (PGI) “Canard à foie gras du Sud-Ouest” (Duck with... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/01/to-be-protected-t-shirt-design-must-be.html The protection of works of applied art by intellectual property is a divisive issue. This subject has recently been the subject of some important clarifications [IPKat here, here or here]. This Kat has found a recent decision issued by the Paris Court of Appeal in a dispute over the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/01/is-mickey-mouse-in-public-domain.html On 1st January every year we celebrate the array of works entering the public domain, as their copyright term expires. This year, entering the public domain [generally speaking] are copyright protected works created by people who died in 1953, for countries with a copyright term of life plus 70... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/01/cjeu-on-burden-of-proof-for-exhaustion.html Some jurisdictions have a doctrine of international exhaustion while in others, like the EU, the exclusive trade mark rights are only exhausted if the goods are placed on the market in the EEA (including the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). In (supra-)national exhaustion regimes, an important question is who... Continue reading
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