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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/around-ip-blogs_11.html While this Kat is already saving space in his stomach for a chocolate feast next Sunday, check the latest news from around the IP blogs. A happy Kat preparing for Easter Across the pond, IPFinance reported that the US Congressional Research Service has released a report for the US... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-louboutinamazon-cases-c-14821-and-c.html Merpel will be also spending the weekend shopping for (stiletto heel) shoes Last year The IPKat reported on a new referral to the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) from Luxembourg’s Tribunal d’arrondissement, asking whether the operator of a hybrid marketplace could be considered directly liable for trade... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/when-vampire-not-called-dracula-bested.html This Kat has never been much into vampire lore, although our youngest did convince his parents to purchase the full set of episodes for Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. Vampires have been accused of many things over the centuries. But for IP types, perhaps their most notable accomplishment was the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/cjeu-rules-that-private-copying-also.html Kat cloud … A few days ago the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rendered its judgment in C-433/20 Austro-Mechana, ruling that the notion of reproduction ‘on any medium’ extends to the cloud and, therefore, that private copying under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive also applies in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/epo-board-of-appeal-maintains.html Antibodies may be defined in a patent claim by their amino acid sequence, by their target (epitope) and/or their functional characteristics. Functional and epitope antibody claims can capture a whole class (“genus”) of antibody therapeutics, whereas sequence claim language captures a far narrower field molecules. A recent Board of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/supreme-peoples-court-of-china-issues.html On 16 March 2022, the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) issued the Judicial Interpretation by the SPC on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law (AUCL; see the translation by WIPO Lex here) of China (JI 2022; full context here in Chinese), which took effect on... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/epo-board-of-appeal-tows-party-line-on.html Following on quickly from the controversial Board of Appeal decision T 1989/18, in which the description amendment requirement was found to lack legal basis, comes another Board of Appeal decision concluding the opposite. T 1024/18 is an appeal decision revoking EP 2609899 on the grounds that an amended description had not been filed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/epo-board-of-appeal-tows-party-line-on.html Following on quickly from the controversial Board of Appeal decision T 1989/18, in which the description amendment requirement was found to lack legal basis, comes another Board of Appeal decision concluding the opposite. T 1024/18 is an appeal decision revoking EP 2609899 on the grounds that an amended description had not been filed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html It’s time for the weekly recap! Repetita iuvant if you missed last week’s IPKat posts! “BusinessCat“ by brownpau is marked with CC BY 2.0. The CJEU ruled in the Ferrari case that the burden of proving genuine use of a mark lies with the owner of that mark. But does this mean that... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/04/around-ip-blogs.html The IPKat is back with your weekly roundup of the goings-on around the IP blogosphere:- This Kat likes looking back in time with friends. Trade Marks Patently-O reported on a pending US trade mark case involving the mark CLEAR that Dolce Vita uses on their shoes. The USPTO refused... Continue reading
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