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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html This Kat is a team player As the weather turns a corner, why not spring into the new season by catching up on last week’s IPKat? Copyright Asia Correspondent Tian Lu reported on an interesting copyright case in Japan, relating to artworks each comprising of a telephone booth... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/sunday-surprises.html Conferences, webinars On February 8, the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) will organize “The Year of the COVID vaccines” conference. Speakers will discuss the key regulatory and legal aspects surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines. Participation to the event is free, but registration is required. On February 10,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/around-ip-blogs.html It’s that time of the week again! Let’s have a look at what happened in the IP world the past week… Sunday again!? Patents On 20 January 2021 Birss J handed down what may be his last first instance decision before he takes his place in the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/it-looks-swims-and-quacks-like-quack-so.html Pandemics, our unwelcome guests for millennia, are ultimately all about disease and cure. Well, not quite “all”. This Kat will leave the science, pharmacology, and epidemiology of the pandemic to others. But wearing his trademark hat, what intrigues him is the descriptive language that has been adopted in such... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/guest-book-review-dutfield-and.html This review of Dutfield and Suthersanen on Global Intellectual Property Law, is brought to you by Vera Vallone. Vera is an associate at Lenz & Staehelin with a focus on Intellectual Property, perviously her doctoral thesis was in the field of patent law and she completed an LLM at... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/illumina-v-mgi-part-1-mr-justice-birss.html The High Court decision in Illumina v MGI ([2021] EWHC 57 (Pat)) is the first to take an in depth look at the thorny issue of sufficiency since last year’s Supreme Court decision in Regeneron v Kymab ([2020] UKSC 27) (IPKat). In the case in question, MGI’s obviousness and insufficiency attacks on Illumina’s DNA... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/no-likelihood-of-confusion-between-eu.html In a recent decision concerning the likelihood of confusion between the EU collective trade mark ‘HALLOUMI’ and the sign ‘BBQLOUMI’, the EU General Court held that – in light of the similarity between the signs, the goods and services, and the distinctive character of the former mark – there... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/book-review-forgotten-intellectual.html This book review was prepared by this Kat and Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta, Scientific Coordinator for Innovation and IP Projects at the University of Alicante. In 1881, the later-to-be Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, wrote in “The Common Law” as follows: “The life of the law has not been... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/sunday-surprises_31.html On this last day of January, I have a bowl full of Katfood to spoil you with… All this Katfood just for me – yummy! Blocking injunction in TPM circumvention case issued in Spain A few months ago, The IPKat hosted a post by PermaKat Eleonora reflecting on the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_31.html Sunday afternoon Copyright InternKat Sophie Corke shared her analysis of two recent judgments by Germany’s Federal Court of Justice concerning consent to media image use. In both cases, German celebrities sued local media for use without consent of their own image. The Court sided with both plaintiffs and affirmed... Continue reading
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