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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/sunday-surprises_11.html These Kats are having a global encounter While northern hemisphere Kats may be settling in to the summer, there’s still the opportunity to engage with IP issues online. Rapid response event on CJEU YouTube/Cyando ruling Do YouTube and cyberlocker Uploaded directly perform copyright-restricted acts? And, following from this: what... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/around-ip-blogs_11.html Copyright IPLens blog looked at several recent decisions of the Court of Milan, to see how the CJEU Cofemel decision has impacted on the copyright protection of industrial designs [see also an IPKat post the Kiko case, where the Italian Supreme Court applied Cofemel to Kiko store layout]. As... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/slow-and-steady-wins-race-nigerias.html Three years after Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council considered and approved the Copyright (Repeal) Bill, it has now been transmitted to the National Assembly for enactment into law. Readers following the copyright reform process in Nigeria would recall that following public comments in February 2015, a team of national experts... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/bliss-brands-pty-ltd-v-advertising.html Late in May, a High Court in South Africa delivered judgment in Bliss Brands (Pty) Ltd v Advertising Regulatory Board NPC & Others, on the issue of the extent of the powers of the Advertising Regulatory Board (‘ARB’) in matters relating to trade mark and copyright laws. The ARB... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/vico-oral-proceedings-on-legality-of.html The re-scheduled Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) oral proceedings for referral G1/21 (ViCo oral proceedings), were held last Friday. The EBA did not announce a decision during proceedings and we now await a written decision. The EBA oral proceedings were themselves plagued by technical issues that, unfortunately for the EPO, were... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/guest-post-how-much-is-that-sep-in.html Remember April? We had not yet experienced the torrential rains of May or the Dominic Cummings revenge tour. We also still had a referral pending at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Nokia v Daimler. The IPKat also hosted its joint-panel with LSE with... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/double-trouble-eba-finds-legal.html The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has issued its decision in G4/19, the last referral pending from 2019. The referral related to the legal justification for the prohibition of double patenting. This prohibition prevents the grant of more than one European patent application having the same filing date and applicant, and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html This Kat is laser-focused With a new month comes another opportunity to look back on last week on The IPKat. Copyright The YouTube/Cyando ruling of the CJEU featured last week, with PermaKat Eleonora Rosati analysing the Court’s reasoning in relation to a number of questions asked by the referring... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/around-ip-blogs.html These feet were made for walking… Join me for a walk around the blogs… Patents The German Bundestag has adopted amendments to the German Patent Act. The changes introduce (i) a codified proportionality defense to injunctions in patent infringement proceedings, (ii) new confidentiality rules for patent disputes, and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/07/sunday-surprises.html Conferences, webinars On July 8, the Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property (UNION-IP) is organising an online discussion with Lisa Jorgenson, Deputy Director General, Patents and Technology Sector (WIPO), who will talk about the latest news and developments from WIPO. Registration is available here. On July 9, the... Continue reading
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