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[Guest post] Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/guest-post-ownership-of-ip-rights-by.html The IPKat is pleased to host the following contribution by Katfriend Marianna Ryan (Edwin Coe and King’s College London) on the topical issue of how Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) are to be treated and what IP issues come with them. Here’s what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs... Continue reading
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New eEQE consultation ends 31 August 2022: Don’t miss the opportunity to have your say!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/new-eeqe-consultation-ends-31-august.html The EPO and epi have joined forces to propose a radical shake-up of the examinations to become a qualified patent attorney. A consultation on the proposal ends today (31 August 2022) (IPKat). Full details of the proposal, together with the consultation questionnaire can be found here. The questionnaire takes... Continue reading
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Boards of Appeal back rejection of special criteria for the novelty of purity inventions, but the Guidelines remain out of step (T 0043/18)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/boards-of-appeal-back-rejection-of.html Historically, the EPO has used a higher bar to assess the novelty for purity of compound inventions. A recent decision from the Boards of Appeal has confirmed that this approach contradicts the overarching principles of novelty. The decision in T 0043/18 particularly agreed with the 2018 decision T 1085/13 that novelty can only be... Continue reading
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First preliminary injunction issued by a court in Turkey regarding NFTs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/first-preliminary-injunction-issued-by.html Few issues in the world of intangible rights contain as many legal uncertainties as do non-fungible tokens. Kat friends Mutlu Yıldırım Köse and Havva Yıldız discuss a recent decision rendered in Turkey, representing the first foray by a Turkish court into these murky legal waters. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), ranging... Continue reading
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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last weeks!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_25.html Summer is not over yet and the IPKat has been pretty busy! In case you missed it, here is an overview of the posts from the last few weeks. “Geisha i hand” by Mikael Moiner is licensed under CC BY 2.0. TRADE MARKS Last July, the Beijing IP Court ruled that the... Continue reading
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Book Review: Once Upon a Time, the Patent

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/book-review-once-upon-time-patent.html This Alicante-based Kat has been enjoying her sea view with a good book in paws: “Once upon a time, the patent” by Pascal Attali (2022, 304 p.). The first part of the book is devoted to the history of patent law. I will mention several interesting episodes in this... Continue reading
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How far does a footballer’s right to control use of their their image go? Italian Supreme Court weighs on interplay between right to private life and freedom of expression/information

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/how-far-does-footballers-right-to.html Gianni Rivera with his Milan AC jersey in the 1970s In what circumstances and at what conditions is one entitled to use another person’s image without permission? This vexed question, which is at the very core of balancing one’s right to private life with freedom of expression and information,... Continue reading
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When you have to move: the trauma of downsizing one’s personal library

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/when-you-have-to-move-trauma-of.html Moving can be among life’s most trying family events. This is especially so when moving means downsizing. This Kat recently endured this trauma, after 35 years living in the same apartment with Mrs. Kat and the (once small, now grown) family Kittens. IP was not spared. Perhaps the most... Continue reading
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UK court considers that rowing machine could be protectable under both UK and EU copyright

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/uk-court-considers-that-rowing-machine.html Would you say that the fitness equipment pictured below – a water resistance rowing machine called WaterRower, originally created between 1985 and 1987 by former professional US rower John Duke and the subject of a now expired US patent – could be protected by copyright? Duke’s WaterRower The answer... Continue reading
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Samsonite fails in getting 3D EU trade mark registration for tablet cases due to lack of distinctiveness

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/08/samsonite-fails-in-getting-3d-eu-trade.html Kids these days are savvy: being used to iPads and iPhones, just throwing a book into their laps and expecting them to be entertained might not always do the trick. Kids demand a lot from the products they use and love and this also applies to … iPad/tablet cases.... Continue reading