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Does EU law say anything regarding the exercise of IPR joint owners’ rights? Not according to AG Campos … but is that it?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/does-eu-law-say-anything-regarding.html Joint ownership of IP rights is one of the areas that, in practice, may generate some of the biggest headaches, in particular when it comes to determining what each and every joint owner can do independently of the other owner(s). It is also an area in which historically different... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Conference report: Design & Copyright Law – siblings or rivals?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-conference-report-design.html A few weeks ago, the UNION-IP Designs Commission in association with the UNION-IP Netherlands national group – “Design & Copyright Law: siblings or rival?” held another roundtable session (Thursday Thingies), the topic of which related to the overlaps between copyright and design law (details of the event to be... Continue reading
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How “gaslighting” became the 2022 dictionary word of the year

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-gaslighting-became-2022-dictionary.html If you used the word “gaslighting” recently, you are not alone. Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently selected it as the 2022 “word of the year”. [Merpel grouses—”you are such a nerd”, with the rest of the world following the World Cup]. Whatever, the story of how the word went... Continue reading
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The Moçambique principle and challenging the validity of a foreign patent: GW Pharma v Otsuka [2022] EWCA Civ 1462

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-mocambique-principle-and.html Whilst a bit different from PatKat’s stable Katfood of EPO case law, the recent decision from the Court of Appeal in GW Pharma v Otsuka ([2022] EWCA Civ 1462) is nonetheless food for thought. The decision considered whether the UK courts are able to hear a dispute over whether royalties are due under a... Continue reading
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Monday Miscellany

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/monday-miscellany.html Temperatures are dropping – but not the weekly summary of events and opportunities that The IPKat suggests to you! “Snow Cat” by ethanol76 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Events and opportunities The British group of UNION IP (Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property) is organising a meeting with The Honourable... Continue reading
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[BREAKING] UPC and Sunrise start dates pushed back by 2 months to 1 March 2023

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/breaking-upc-and-sunrise-start-dates.html The AmeriKat resting a bit easier with the UPC news An early holiday present for Unified Patent Court users this morning. This morning came the announcement that the start of the UPC is being pushed back by two months. The start of the Sunrise Period has moved from 1 January... Continue reading
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How artificial intelligence works in relation to copyright

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-artificial-intelligence-works-in.html Kat friend Jakub Wyczik provides an enlightening discussion of how AI and the law, especially copyright, intersect, with particular attention to the technical operation of AI. Images generated using text-to-image technology, including DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffussion, have become a main topic in AI. Not only do many... Continue reading
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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2022!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/ipkat-book-of-year-awards-2022.html It’s the most wonderful tiiime of the yeaaarrr… time, of course, to vote for your favourite intellectual property law books of 2022! The IPKat team continue to diligently read and review as many brilliant IP books as possible, of which there are many, for the Kat community. But there can... Continue reading
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When foreign geographical names meet the domestic public – HMPTN WATER v CNIPA

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-foreign-geographical-names-meet.html Art. 10.2 of the PRC Trade Mark Law (TML, 2019 Amendment) concerns a ground for refusal against foreign geographical names: No geographical names of administrative divisions at or above the county level or foreign geographical names known to the public may be used as trade marks, except where geographical... Continue reading
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The European Commission publishes the proposals for a revised Regulation and Directive on designs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-european-commission-publishes.html On November 29, 2022, the European Commission published the long-awaited proposals for a revised Regulation and revised Directive on designs. The two proposals will now be transmitted to the European Parliament and the Council for adoption. This post summarises the main innovations of the two proposals. New... Continue reading