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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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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
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/update-calls-to-push-back-upc-sunrise.html Last week the AmeriKat posted a survey on the IPKat to check how many people have been able to obtain a security device that is necessary to access the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC’s) Case Management System (CMS) via strong authentication. This was triggered by in-house counsel flagging to the AmeriKat... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/what-can-gi-scholars-learn-from-food.html As diverse as legal scholarship is on geographical indications (GI), historical and ethnological studies of food may still offer an often-overlooked perspectives on how GIs come into being. In this post, this Kat would like to share some books which caught her GI-focused attention from historical and ethnological vantages.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/twitter-blue-fiasco-please-note-that.html What’s up with Nintendo tweeting a picture of Mario pointing a middle finger right at me? Oh wait… this is a fake Nintendo Twitter account. Why then is there a check mark next to it saying it’s “verified”? Twitter Blue Following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, throughout... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/progress-report-on-uk-economics-of.html This Kat visiting Parliament Readers will remember that the UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry [full Kat coverage here] took place last year. The DCMS Select Committee Report following the Inquiry made several recommendations, and the government responded with general agreement and action for further steps. On Tuesday 15th... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/another-board-of-appeal-enters-fray-on.html Board of Appeal decisions considering description amendments are now so frequent that PatKat can only just keep up. Hot on the heels of T 2194/19 (IPKat), comes yet another decision addressing the legal basis for the description amendment requirement (T 3097/19). The Board of Appeal in this latest decision explicitly... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/italian-supreme-court-global-delisting.html Unforgettable Kat … What can be the territorial scope of an injunction requiring a search engine to delist certain search results? This is a fundamental question when it comes to ensuring the effective protection of rights, including but not limited to IP rights, on the internet. It is also... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-tale-of-black-friday.html While many of our readers will be shopping over the weekend, this Kat has prepared a post on the German “Black Friday” litigation to keep you company while you’re queuing. On October 30, 2013, a German company applied to the German Trade Mark Office (DPMA) for a word... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/11/epo-president-puts-vico-in-opposition.html The EPO has announced the EPO President’s decision to make ViCo the default format for all opposition and examining oral proceedings from 1 January 2023. The President’s Decision precedes the end of the ViCo pilot program at the end of this year and puts the use of ViCo at first instance... Continue reading
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