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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_31.html If you missed last week’s posts, it’s not too late to catch up. A Kat waiting for the next IP case. Copyright This Kat reflected on a judgment issued by the Tribunal Judiciaire of Paris on 31 March 2023 which concerned a claim of copyright infringement in a typeface.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/cryptocurrency-exchange-platform.html In a recent judgment, the General Court upheld the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU’s) reasoning in Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprüngli (C‑529/07) EU:C:2009:361 and held that, when an applicant is acting in bad faith, all the relevant factors specific to the particular case at the time of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/is-inverted-cow-vegan.html With decision issued on 8 May 2023, the EUIPO refused an application for registration of the image of an inverted cow for products excluding the presence of meat, such as meat substitutes, protein for the use in industrial manufacturing of food products and related engineering services. Facts of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/inauguration-of-unified-patent-court.html Today, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) began its life in Luxembourg. The UPC will enter into force on 1 June this year. According to the programme available on the official website of the Grand Duchy (here), both the President of the Court of Appeal of the UPC and the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/grur-meets-brussels-conference-returns.html Belgian waffle Kat The IPKat is pleased to inform readers that the ‘GRUR meets Brussels’ conference is returning on 13 June 2023 and IPKat readers are entitled to receive a 30% discount in the registration fee. To claim the discount, readers should email Sandra von Lingen ([email protected]) and use... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/guest-post-how-should-intellectual.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Guillem Gabriel-Pizarro (PhD candidate, European University Institute) on the recent proposal for an EU directive in insolvency law and how it relates to IP licences. Here’s what Guillem writes: How should intellectual property licences be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/emmentaler-cannot-be-eutm-says-general.html With a decision dated 24 May 2023, the General Court (GC) held that the term “EMMENTALER”, as designating a type of cheese, cannot be protected as European Union trade mark (EUTM), having a descriptive character in part of the European Union (EU), which may be a single Member State (in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-musical-box-infringes-authors-moral.html Kat readers who have been to Paris surely remember the numerous shops selling musical boxes. Such musical boxes, especially popular among tourists, commonly feature classical French songs. In recent years, they also became the protagonist in a protracted litigation that reached the French Cassation Court. The case went as... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/book-review-overlapping-intellectual.html This Kat is pleased to review the “Overlapping Intellectual Property rights”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-copyright-adventure-of-two.html Copyright infringement cases often involve works of art, literature, or design. This recent French decision gives us an opportunity to look at a rarer case, that of copyright infringement in a typeface. A very Kat font Background The facts deserve some attention. In 1994, Mr X, a pioneer... Continue reading
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