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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/new-fashion-law-london-event-entirely.html Readers may be aware that, together with Giulia Gasparin, I am also currently involved in Fashion Law London, an initiative that was born in 2019 to create opportunities of study and discussion, mostly from an IP and IT law perspective, for all those interested in this emerging field of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/guest-post-jaguar-goes-after-replica.html In a recent case concerning a replica of the Jaguar C-Type sportscar, the Swedish Patent and Market Court was asked to decide, among other things, whether this model, which was created in the UK in 1951, enjoyed copyright protection in Sweden in 2021. Katfriend Hans Eriksson (Westerberg & Partners) has analysed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/mr-justice-mellor-in-toy-land-orders.html The AmeriKat playing with herspherical toy while considering how many patents judgesmake a full Court The first three months of 2021 have so far been pretty active for the UK Patents Court. With now two specialist Patents Court judges installed in the form of Mr Justice Mellor and Mr Justice... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_14.html Copyright Eleonora Rosati reviewed a recent decision from the Spanish Supreme Court concerning the protectability of bullfighting by copyright. Having applied the Court of Justice’s practice in Cofemel and Levola Hengelo [see Katposts here and here], the Supreme Court considered that a bullfight does not qualify as a work,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/around-ip-blogs_14.html This Kat is springing into action Another week, another roundup of IP-related news and views. Patents FOSS Patents presented a criticism of alleged structural shortcomings in the current German patent injunction reform process, including the bill’s potential differential impact on different industries. Keeping with the German theme, JUVE Patent... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/epo-declares-eeqe-format-went-very.html Last week the European Qualifying Exams (EQEs) for patent attorneys were held online for the first time. The EPO has now released a statement, declaring the digital EQE a “success”. The considerable achievement of getting the eEQE up and running in time for the exams this year should be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/jeff-koons-loses-again-in-france-his.html A little over a year ago, The IPKat reported on the then fresh decision of the Paris Court of Appeal, which had upheld the decision at first instance in a copyright infringement case originally brought by the estate of photographer Jean-François Bauret against the well-known (also to copyright litigators) US artist... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/technologys-challenge-to-autonomous.html Never, it seems, has IP creation and invention ever been so concerned about their relationship to technology. For sure, copyright has always been dragged along by advances in the means of reproduction and distribution, from the printing press to the digital file. And, for sure, the metes and bounds... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/cjeu-rules-that-linking-can-be.html Can a rightholder restrict linking by contract, eg by imposing the adoption of technological measures? This, in a nutshell, is the core issue at the heart of the referral to the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in VG Bild-Kunst, C-392/19, which was... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/03/2021-us-copyright-compendium-series-2.html Last week, this Kat began exploring the most important revisions from the 2021 version of the Compendium of US Copyright Office Practices, Third Edition. The series began with a discussion of the Office’s expanded treatment of an otherwise scantly mentioned category of work, works of artistic craftmanship. This post... Continue reading
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