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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/of-novelty-inventiveness-and.html Spring semester is here and that means students at universities all over the world are getting ready to write final assignments or even their theses. This Kat is proud to announce that, starting this semester, he will be teaching in the IP courses of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, together... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/book-review-copyright-and-fundamental.html Copyright and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age: A Comparative Analysis in Search of a Common Constitutional Ground, edited by Oreste Pollicino, Giovanni Maria Riccio and Marco Bassini, explores the relationship between copyright and fundamental rights in light of the digital single market strategy. It argues that the battle... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/sony-warner-universal-mostly-dont.html The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee is examining the impact of music streaming in the Economics of Music Streaming Inquiry. An overview of the inquiry was provided here, and my reflections on some of the issues here. As part of my podcast series Whose Song is it Anyway? We interviewed... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/tuesday-thingies_19.html This Kat knows he’s top dog A new week can only mean one thing: new events and opportunities from around the world of IP. Webinars & Courses INTA and the 4ip Council are co-hosting a webinar on 11 February 2021, drawing on themes addressed here, to address the topic... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/upcoming-era-conferences-and-courses.html The famous Porta Nigra in Trier Our friends at ERA are always very busy and are already planning several exciting conferences and courses in the fields of IP and media law in 2021. Like every year, they are also offering IPKat readers a 25% discount in the registration fee... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/event-report-ifim-holiday-seminar-tales.html December brought another fascinating conference, this time organised by the Institute of Intellectual Property and Market Law (Institutet för immaterialrätt och marknadsrätt) of Stockholm University, which has a tradition of inviting junior academics and lawyers to speak in its annual Holiday seminar. The 2020 seminar featured researchers who successfully defended... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/ifim-event-year-of-covid-vaccines.html IPKat readers are warmly invited to attend another free (online) event organized by the Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University, of which I am honoured and delighted to be the Director. Taking place on 8 February 2021, The Year of the COVID Vaccines will... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-inexorable-rise-of-epo-oral.html The COVID-19 pandemic will change many aspects of life as we know it. One particularly prominent change has been the accelerated adoption of video-conferencing (VC) as a risk free way of ensuring business continuity. The European Patent Office (EPO) has not been left behind, with the ready adoption of oral... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/nazi-aryanisation-of-intellectual.html An aerial view of 1930s Vienna The Nazi practice of economic Aryanisation, the destruction of so-called ‘degenerate’ books and artworks, and cultural plunder all form elements of the regime’s attempted cultural and economic extermination policy. These intensified after Kristallnacht in 1938, with efforts to restore property and citizenship continuing... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_17.html This Kat has a lot on her mind Welcome to this week’s roundup of posts on which no Kat reader is ever too late to catch up. Copyright Whether copyright subsists in apparel design – in graphic renderings, samples, or the articles of clothing themselves – was considered by... Continue reading
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