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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/sunday-surprises_30.html This Kat is feeling summery What Kat reader could resist the siren call of assorted miscellany? Webinars The Competition Law Association is holding three upcoming webinars: Analysing Algorithms: new frontiers in anti-trust, 3 June. What IP Practioners need to know about Competition Law, 15 June. Navigating Competition Law Issues... Continue reading
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BREAKING: Oral proceedings in G1/21 (ViCo) rescheduled due to procedural technicality

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/breaking-oral-proceedings-in-g121-vico.html The Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) has decided to reschedule oral proceedings for G1/21 due to a procedural technicality. The referral concerns the legality of conducting Board of Appeal oral proceedings by Video Conferencing (ViCo) without the consent of all parties. However, the substantive issues in the referral were... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] Repeat filings after Monopoly: an exchange of views

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/guest-post-repeat-filings-after.html The beauty of the law is that different views are always possible. So, when Tobias Cohen Jehoram (Erasmus University Rotterdam and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) and Irenah Klink (De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) reached out saying they had different views to those expressed in a recent Katpost covering the General Court... Continue reading
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Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/book-review-routledge-handbook-of-eu.html The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law is edited by our very own perma-Kat Professor of Eleonora Rosati, who (in case readers didn’t already know) is Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University, Guest Professor at... Continue reading
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[Guest post] De minimis uses and the German implementation of Art 17 DSM Directive

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/guest-post-de-minimis-uses-and-german.html As readers may know, Germany passed their implementation of Article 17 of the Digital Single Market (DSM) Copyright Directive on Thursday 20th May 2021. This new copyright legislation is controversial and has potentially dramatic implications for copyright users, rightsholders and platforms. As such, I am extremely grateful to our friend... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/sunday-surprises_23.html Webinars On May 28, the Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of Strasbourg University is organising an online conference ,“Hayao Miyazaki and the law: from dream to reality”. The conference will examine the works of the Japanese artist from various legal perspectives. The event will be held in... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_0698753221.html This Kat is all caught up This Kat is looking forward to a long weekend, but not before taking a look back at what went on last week on the IPKat. Copyright SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher reported on the latest developments in copyright infringement proceedings between UK collecting society PRS... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/around-ip-blogs_23.html To kick off the weekend, let’s take a walk around the blogs… Ready for this walk… Patents A key mechanism in patent litigation and specifically for generics is the concept of “launch at risk”. Kluwer Patent Blog reported on Sweden’s position on launch at risk with regards to new... Continue reading
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Let not the Cancellation Division see your black and deep desires: (another) Banksy mark cancelled by EUIPO due to bad faith

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/let-not-cancellation-division-see-your.html Monkey business? The anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy is no stranger to trade mark wrangling, with this week’s cancellation decision by the European Union Intellectual Property Office’s Cancellation Division following hot on the heels of similar proceedings last September, concerning the work ‘Flower Thrower’ (covered by the IPKat here). ... Continue reading
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How playlists are changing the nature of musical works

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-playlists-are-changing-nature-of.html Common copyright wisdom holds that technological developments primarily change the way that contents are reproduced and distributed. The obvious “then” and “now” are the printing press and the internet. “Then”, the ability to make multiple copies of contents created the conditions for the rise of the publishing industry; “now”,... Continue reading