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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/are-parties-still-impaired-from.html The decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) in G1/21 was perhaps the “non-event” of the patent year. Despite clear and considerable interest in the EBA’s view of mandatory ViCo oral proceedings as the new norm, the EBA chose to only answer the narrow question of the legality... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-table-and-table-coaster-that-shaped.html This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Court of Justice’s (CJEU) landmark judgment in Pepsico v Grupo Promer Mon Graphic (C-281/10P). In this ruling, which originated from a design invalidity claim before the EUIPO (OHIM, as it was known then), the Court of Justice construed the meaning of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/whistle-while-you-work-syncing-beyond.html Synchronizing music with visual media output, such as films, television shows, advertisements, video games, accompanying websites and movies, is widespread. Indeed, drafting synchronization licenses has helped many a commercial copyright practitioner pay for his/her child’s college tuition. But syncing music is part of our much broader daily lives, beyond... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html This Kat has become a purr-ito The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Kats are providing updates and commentary from around the world of IP. Copyright PermaKat Eleonora Rosati considered the ways in which EU Member States have been exercising (and derogated from the limits of) their... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/online-conference-announcement-making.html 2021 is a momentous year for EU copyright law: it is the 30th anniversary since the adoption of the first ever copyright directive (the Software Directive 1991/250) and the 20th since the passing of the seminal InfoSoc Directive 2001/29. By 7 June this year, individual Member States should have... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/katcall-openings-for-guestkats-and.html Are you passionate about IP? We have exciting news for you! The IPKat is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) for GuestKat posts and looking for IP enthusiasts to fill InternKat positions. GuestKat and InternKat positions will last six months, and there are no geographical restrictions on either role. Please... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/notice-regarding-ipkat-in-conversation.html Dear Kat readers An incorrect version of the post, “IPKat in conversation with Mr. Daren Tang, Director General of WIPO: ‘We are on the cusp of something different’ “, was published earlier today. The correct version of the post now appears. Content reproduced from The IPKat as permitted under... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/ipkat-in-conversation-with-mr-daren.html IPKat recently interviewed Mr. Daren Tang, the Director General of WIPO since October 1, 2020. Mr. Tang came to WIPO after serving at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) for seven years, first as Deputy Chief Executive (three years) followed by four years in the role of Chief... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/appointed-person-considers-status-of.html In an interesting decision (O/557/21) rendered following an appeal against a decision of an Hearing Officer of the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO), the Appointed Person upheld the Hearing Officer’s decision ((O/474/20) and declared the appellant’s trade mark invalid on the basis of a likelihood of confusion between the marks at... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/08/guest-post-china-passes-its-first.html Last week, China passed the Personal Information Protection Law, a top-level comprehensive data protection law with noticeable parts compatible with the GDPR. Upon that, The IPKat is delighted to host the following guest post co-authored by Anja Geller (PhD candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Junior Research Fellow at the Max... Continue reading
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