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At the end of the second week of April with the sun starting to emerge, here are the latest Katposts.

Copyright

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Nedim Malevich reported the words of Deborah De Angelis, who discussed the recent conflict between SIAE and Meta in relation to Italian music on Facebook and Instagram.

Anna Maria Stein discussed the recently issued “Copyright registration guide: works containing material generated by artificial intelligence” by the US Copyright Office.

Patents

Rose Hughes discussed the implementation of the new sequence listing requirement for patent applications, ST.26, and the challenges associated with the same.

Rose Hughes reported on some of the features of the technical aspects of claims interpretation and on the recent EPO’s position of the description to narrow the meaning of clear language in the same claims.

Trademarks

Anna Maria Stein discussed whether it is possible to register multimedia trade marks in accordance with the EU Trade Mark regulation.

Designs

Marcel Pemsel commented on the EU design protection of single components of complex products, especially in relation to the judgement B&Bartoni v EUIPO (case T-617/21).

Other

Anastasia Kyrylenko reviewed the book “Intellectual Property and Development – Geographical Indications in Practice by Barbara Pick (Routledge, 2022).

Neil Wilkof let the IPKat readers know that the Book Depository will be closing on the 26th April 2023 and thanked the same readers.

 

 

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