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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/10/is-veuve-cliquots-orange-colour-or.html Mistakes happen. We all make them; it’s part of what makes us human. But what happens when the EUIPO makes a mistake? As background to a (lengthy) case leading to interesting decision of the General Court, the EUIPO’s department responsible for the trade mark register erroneously rectified the registration... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/two-for-price-of-one-when-do-r.html Genuine use and partial revocation remain challenging trade mark issues. Kat friends Karen Lai and Joshua Kwan discuss a fascinating recent case from Singapore that had the opportunity to address both. Can R&D activities amount to genuine use of a trade mark in the course of trade? This... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/news-express-china-releases-15-year_28.html On 22 September 2021, China released a 15-year plan to develop intellectual property rights (IPR): ‘The Outline of Building a Powerful Intellectual Property Nation’ (2021–2035). The full text in Chinese is accessible at the Xinhuanet. The official English version will be made available here in due course. This post... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/book-review-intelletual-property-of.html This is a review of The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution by Laura R. Ford – Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bard College, New York. In this book, Laura Ford draws on macro-historical sociological theories, to trace the development of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/uk-government-responds-to-dcms-music.html Readers will no doubt be aware of the recent UK Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry by the Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee [Katposts here], which investigated the impact of music streaming on artists remuneration, as well as other issues around the fairness and sustainability of the wider music... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/guestpost-opinion-skirting-frand.html Merpel wonders where we are headed on the FRAND licensing level debate, and who is in the driver’s seat? In courtrooms across the globe, arguments continue to rage as to the extent of an SEP owner’s FRAND undertaking. In exchange for getting their technology incorporated into a standard (meaning that, if... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/ag-hogan-advises-cjeu-to-rule-that.html Kat cloud Does the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? If so, can rightholders request the providers of such a service to impose a levy even if their... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/new-zealand-gold-kiwifruit-returns-to.html Kat friend Doug Calhoun reports on the complicated follow-up to the New Zealand case of infringement of gold kiwifruit. In a previous post, this blogger described how a plant variety right for a gold kiwifruit variety in New Zealand had been infringed by a rogue grower. In that decision,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/sony-vita-mark-loses-out-in-genuine-use.html Genuine use poses a unique quandary for trade mark owners when raised in revocation proceedings. Not only does the trade mark owner bear the burden of producing evidence to establish such use, but the trade mark owner should know that the ‘reputation’ of the mark does not mean that... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/aippi-event-report-lord-justice-birss.html The AmeriKat enjoying her fullyremote existence… Last week, the UK Group hosted the latest in their remote series of events with Lord Justice Birss looking to the future of civil justice. The AmeriKat was elsewhere in the remote universe, but was lucky to have guest Kat, Anna Duch (Bristows) on... Continue reading
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