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Informa Connect’s Standards & Patents conference returns to London with 15% IPKat readers’ discount

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/informa-connects-standards-patents.html Kat-gathering The IPKat is pleased to report that the ‘Standards & Patents: Law & Litigation’ conference, organized by Informa Connect, returns to London (Leonardo Royal Hotel London St. Paul’s) on 23-24 May. The conference features a line-up of expert speakers from companies such as Nokia, Phillips, Qualcomm, Dolby and... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html May has just began and with it a new month of posts are incoming, but here’s what you missed from the IPKat last week! Designs Image by Alice Castro via Pexels Marcel Pemsel commented on the question how to prove disclosure on earlier designs, by considering that the most... Continue reading
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Cultural meme as a trademark: the registration of WAGATHA CHRISTIE

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/cultural-meme-as-trademark-registration.html Emeritus Kat, Professor Ilanah Fhima, proposes a provocative approach to signs that have taken on cultural significance. Rebekah Vardy, wife of football player Jamie Vardy, has managed to secure registration of WAGATHA CHRISTIE for a wide range of goods and services. Why is this noteworthy? Unless you were among... Continue reading
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CJEU clarifies connecting factors and level of assessment for international jurisdiction of EU trade mark courts

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/cjeu-clarifies-connecting-factors-and.html Art. 125 EUTMR provides an elaborate cascade for international jurisdiction of the EU trade mark courts. The defendant must be sued: 1. In the EU Member State in which it is domiciled (Art. 125(1) EUTMR); 2. Absent a domicile in the EU, in the EU Member State where the... Continue reading
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IPR infringement in yellow-and-blue logo: Lidl wins High Court dispute against Tesco

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/ipr-infringement-in-yellow-and-blue.html In a judgment issued a few days ago, the High Court of England and Wales (the Court) held that Tesco had infringed Lidl’s copyright, trade mark, and rights in passing off vesting in Lidl’s blue-and-yellow logo. However, the case was not completely successful for Lidl, since the Court also... Continue reading
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To encompass and embody: Applying the abstract principles of G 2/21

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-encompass-and-embody-applying.html It is now some weeks since we received the EBA’s decision in G 2/21 on the standard of evidence required for inventive step (often referred to as the “plausibility” referral). As previously summarised (IPKat), G 2/21 does not change the evidence standard for inventive step. Instead, the main contribution of G 2/21 is... Continue reading
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General Court considers ‘gymnastic and sporting articles’ and ‘games and toys’ dissimilar for the purpose of likelihood of confusion assessment

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/general-court-considers-gymnastic-and.html Are toys that fall within the category of ‘gymnastic and sporting articles’ different from toys that fall within the broader category of ‘games and toys’? In a recent decision, the General Court considered the goods covered by the marks in question, namely ‘Games, toys’ and ‘Gymnastic and sporting articles’,... Continue reading
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Narrowing the scope of protection of figurative marks?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/narrowing-scope-of-protection-of.html Both the EUIPO and General Court have had a tendency to grant a broad scope of protection for purely figurative marks. Below are several examples: Earlier mark Contested mark Decision Low degree of visual and average degree of conceptual similarity (T-364/13) Average degree of visual similarity and high degree... Continue reading
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The state of the Africa creative economy: Thoughts on the Creative Vibrancy Index for Africa

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-state-of-africa-creative-economy.html Last week (27 April), the Creative Economy Practice at CcHUB launched the Creative Vibrancy Index for Africa (CVIA or the Index) which comprehensively ranks African cities based on their support for arts, culture and creative industries. The CVIA ranks 12 African cities: Accra, Cairo, Dakar, Dar-Es-Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Kinshasa,... Continue reading
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Saturday Sundries

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/04/saturday-sundries.html Here are the latest opportunities and events to find out about. Recognition Legal Business has recently published an article about the opportunities presented by social media to lawyers. Both our PermaKat Eleonora Rosati and The IPKat are expressly recommended as sources to follow to get an “unstuffy look at... Continue reading