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Monday Miscellany

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/monday-miscellany.html Hope all of you have had a restful weekend! It’s now time to have an overview of some upcoming IP events and opportunities to kick start the new week. OPPORTUNITY King’s College London – Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law The Dickson Poon School of Law is... Continue reading
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[Guest post] ‘Grand rights’ of great importance: copyright on the big stage (part II): Danish Supreme Court rules that “all” actually does mean “all”

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/guest-post-grand-rights-of-great.html The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Katfriends Hanne Kirk and Jakob Plesner Mathiasen (both Gorrissen Federspiel) on the topic of ‘grand rights’ in a recent Danish decision. Here’s what they write: ‘Grand rights’ of great importance: copyright on the big stage (part II): Danish... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Could your beliefs about copyright be protected under the Equality Act?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/guest-post-could-your-beliefs-about.html As IP aficionados, many readers of this blog will have strong views about the proper scope of copyright law. Can and should those beliefs be protected under the Equality Act 2010, protecting copyright believers against discrimination in employment law and in the exercise by public authorities in their functions?... Continue reading
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EPO workshop to provide users with “more certainty” on description amendments

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/epo-workshop-to-provide-users-with-more.html There has been a ream of recent decisions from the EPO Boards of Appeal on whether the requirements in the Guidelines for Examination on description amendments has legal basis in the EPC (IPKat). The significance of the two decisions finding a lack of legal basis for the description amendment... Continue reading
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Board of Appeal agrees that the description amendment requirement lacks legal basis (T 1444/20)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/board-of-appeal-agrees-that-description.html Following the excitement over T 1989/18, there has been a second Board of Appeal decision finding a lack of legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims. The decision in T 1444/20 found that it was not necessary for the applicant to delete claim-like clauses and redundant subject matter... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/sunday-surprises_22.html It’s getting hot out there! Perfect timing for our Sunday rundown of key IP events and opportunities for the rest of this month and the start of June! Picture by idea-saras. Licensed under CC BY 2.0. ___________________________________________________________________________________ REMINDER: registrations for the following event close on 24 May 2022 at... Continue reading
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A new emoji for the IP world—the emoji troll is born

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-new-emoji-for-ip-worldthe-emoji-troll.html Cats are well acquainted with the art of trolling already… Did you know that there is now an emoji for all of your IP needs? A troll! This is thanks to Kat friend Frederick Mostert. Mostert co-submitted an application for a troll emoji ( ) to the Unicode Consortium... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] The African Group’s Proposal on a Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions Moves Forward in WIPO’s Committee on Copyright

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/guest-post-african-groups-proposal-on.html Last month, Katfriends Desmond Oriakhogba and Dick Kawooya provided a highlight of the key portions of the Work Program on Limitations and Exceptions (L&Es) proposed by the Africa Group to WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (WIPO-SCCR). The 42nd session of the WIPO SCCR was held from... Continue reading
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Guest Book Review: Intellectual Property Risk Management

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/guest-book-review-intellectual-property.html This review of Intellectual Property Risk Management by Donal O’Connell is kindly provided by Professor Ruth Soetendorp. Ruth is an IP Educator. She is Professor Emerita and Associate Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management at Bournemouth University. She currently teaches intellectual property management at Bayes Business... Continue reading
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UK Intellectual Property Office publishes strategy and priorities

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/05/uk-intellectual-property-office.html The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published documents outlining its main activities and targets, setting out how it will deliver on its ‘ambitions’ and ‘corporate priorities’. These documents include a refreshed corporate strategy outlining its ambitions up to 2026, as well as its corporate priorities for t 2022... Continue reading