• Around the IP Blogs

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/around-ip-blogs_29.html This Kat is just hanging out While the summer winds down, why not while away the hours with news and views from around the IP blogs? Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog gave an update on EU copyright law developments for the second trimester of 2021, including insights into the... Continue reading

     
  • Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_28.html Patents A South African decision to recognize an artificial Intelligence system (DABUS) as an inventor was one of most discussed IP news items of the last several weeks [see The IPKat’s posts on the DABUS saga in various jurisdictions here, here, and here]. Our SpecialKat Chijioke Okorie published an... Continue reading

     
  • Towards the national transpositions of the DSM Directive: various techniques to … do as you please

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/towards-national-transpositions-of-dsm.html Beach + sunbathing + copyright = the perfect summer As readers with an interest in EU copyright are well aware, EU Member States had time until 7 June to transpose the DSM Directive 2019/790 [Katposts here] into their own national laws. With a few exceptions [see Communia tracker here],... Continue reading

     
  • Book Review: Art and Copyright

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/book-review-art-and-copyright.html This book review of Art and Copyright by Simon Stokes (Partner at Blake Morgan) is kindly provided to you by Alexander Herman, Assistant Director, at the Institute of Art and Law. Alexander teaches regularly on copyright, including as part of the Art, Business and Law LLM at the Centre for... Continue reading

     
  • Golden Bunny III: No retroactive application of EU Trade Mark Directive

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/golden-bunny-iii-no-retroactive.html The Golden Bunny trade mark litigation continues to hop along. Former Guest Kat Peter Ling reports on the recent decision of the German Federal Court of Justice regarding retroactive application of the EU Trade Marks Directive. In addition to being known as a source for great chocolate, Swiss chocolate... Continue reading

     
  • Australian Federal Circuit finds literal interpretation of “first approval” in PTE legislation leads to “manifest absurdity”

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/australian-federal-circuit-finds.html The Australian Federal Circuit has overturned a decision of the Commissioner of Patent to reject a patent term extension (PTE) application based on a third party marketing authorisation ([2021] FCA 643). The Federal Circuit found the consequences of enforcing a strict interpretation of “first authorisation” for the purposes of determining the valid... Continue reading

     
  • [Guest post] SkyKick’s back with a bad faith shocker from the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/guest-post-skykicks-back-with-bad-faith.html Trade mark-focused IPKat readers are well familiar with the SkyKick legal saga, which also included a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union [Katposts here]. Recently, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales delivered its own ruling on the matter. Former GuestKat Darren Meale (Simmons... Continue reading

     
  • General Court considers ‘PANTA RHEI’ confusingly similar to ‘PANTA RHEI’ despite low similarity of goods

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/general-court-considers-panta-rhei.html In a recent decision, the General Court considered that ‘PANTA RHEI’ was confusingly similar to the earlier EU trade mark ‘PANTA RHEI’. In particular, the General Court found that, on account of the identity of the two signs and despite the low degree of similarity between the goods, the... Continue reading

     
  • Around the IP Blogs

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/around-ip-blogs_19.html Patents SpicyIP discussed the Indian’s Parliament Standing Committee’s recommendations concerning AI and patent protection. These recommendations are part of a Report of the Standing Committee, which recommended revising Indian’s IPR legislation to ‘extract benefits from AI’. The Report accordingly recommends amending Indian patent law, to make AI-generated works and... Continue reading

     
  • Thursday Thingies

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/thursday-thingies.html This Kat would like to knowwhy you rang As we get towards the end of another working week, it’s time to see what news and events await.  Book release PermaKat Eleonora Rosati’s article-by-article commentary to the DSM Directive 2019/790 has just been released. The book, which contains a foreword... Continue reading