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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/book-review-mechanisms-to-enable-follow.html This book is a comprehensive monograph, based on Dr. Alina Wernick’s earlier thesis research. Its focus is on how open approaches to innovation may overcome market failures in situations where patent protection blocks subsequent improvements of an existing invention (also called “follow-on innovation”). The subject is addressed in ten... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/defining-medical-device-as-product-by.html The decision in T 1869/19 relates to the patentability of a medical device defined in a patent according to its method of manufacture, in the form of a “product-by-process” claim. The decision highlights the difficulty and limitations of the product-by-process claim format, and raises questions as to the value to... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/guest-book-review-ip-accidents.html The book’s cover wonderfully matches the colours of the Villa Salviati gardens This is a book review of IP Accidents: Negligence Liability in Intellectual Property, by Patrick Goold, City Law School, University of London. It is brought to you by Léon Dijkman, a previous contributor to the IPKat. Léon is... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/another-shot-for-rango-but-incidentally.html This blog has already covered the decision of the Rome Court of First Instance concerning a copyright infringement claim concerning a fictional character. The action had been brought by the producers of the movie “For a fistful of dollars” against the producers of the award-winner cartoon movie “Rango”, claiming unlawful use... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/take-five-euipo-board-of-appeal.html From time to time, this Kat receives queries from clients in relation to the registrability of slogans as trade marks. The Board of Appeal of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) in its recent decision refused a trade mark application for the slogan “TAKE FIVE” in Class 32... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/aippi-congress-report-1-is-ip-bogeyman.html On a classically cool and cloudy San Francisco morning, after an invigorating 7:30AM AIPPI meeting, the AmeriKat worked her way to the first panel session of the at the World AIPPI Congress. This is the first in-person Congress since London hosted in 2019, so it was only apt that... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/position-mark-consisting-of-grey-tread.html Adding to the increasingly abundant case law on unconventional EU trade marks (EUTMs), in the following decision (Case R 197/2021-5) from August this year, the EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal found that the position mark below, comprising of a tread and outer portion of a tyre in light grey,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/advertising-regulatory-board-npc-others.html Earlier in April, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa (SCA) ruled on the appeal brought by the Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) against the decision of the High Court (discussed on the IPKat here), which held inter alia that the certain provisions of the ARB’s Code of Advertising... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/guest-post-cant-be-evil-nft-license.html The IPKat is pleased to host the contribution below by Katfriend Paolo Maria Gangi (Studio Gangi) on yet another NFT-related development [for previous instalments, see here, here, and here]. Here’s what Paolo writes: ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT license – A tentative NFT worldwide license standard by Paolo Maria Gangi Can’t Be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/sunday-surprises.html August is finally over and September has just arrived. With a new month comes a new post with the best and latest IP events and opportunities. A Kat reflecting on its decisions so far (and, more immediately, if it is worth entering the tunnel) IPKat Team News The IPKat... Continue reading
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