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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/athlon-custom-sportswear-found-not.html In an interesting decision from October 2020, the EU General Court considered that there was no likelihood of confusion between the signs ‘Athlon Custom Sportswear’ and ‘DECATHLON’ pursuant to Article 8(1)(b) of Regulation 2017/1001 (the EU Trade Mark Regulation (EUTMR)). In particular, it reasoned that, where the elements of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/ipkat-book-of-year-awards-2020-winners.html Thank you to readers for voting in the IPKat book of the year awards, here are your 2020 nominees and winners! Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Till Andlauer, Stefan Ahlers, Thomas Eißfeller and Christoph Schindler, EPC.App: The Self-Editable Commented European Patent Convention (Independently published 2020) Colin Birss, Andrew Waugh,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/guest-post-wuhan-submarine-surfaces-at.html Katfriend Richard Vary informs readers of an interesting development in global Standard Essential Patents (SEP) disputes — the rise of the “Wuhan Submarine” — and very recent use of this tactic in the ongoing SEP battle between Ericsson and Nokia. Over to Richard: Ericsson and Samsung are re-negotiating a cross-licence... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-year-new-ip-law-protect-lawful.html As the United States prepares to begin the first session of the 117th Congress on January 3rd, 2021, the present legislature finished their terms by coalescing several bills into one larger act. This became the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, or H.R. 133, which included two intellectual property bills –... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/beijing-ip-court-case-express-copyright.html Cases presented on the Beijing Intellectual Property (IP) Court’s Case Bulletin webpage are worth reading, given that, since April 2015, the Court has been undertaking tasks as the national IP case guidance research base designated by the Supreme People’s Court of China. This post discusses one of the cases... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/guest-post-new-ip-court-in-ukraine-is.html As a result of comprehensive judicial reform, Ukraine has set out to establish a new specialised intellectual property court (the IP Court). The UK has provided technical assistance to Ukraine on the establishment and functioning of the new IP Court. This DFID/FCO funded project was implemented by the Centre... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/around-ip-blogs.html Patents The seemingly never-ending saga of the United Patent Court being challenged in Germany courts continues [see an earlier post by The IPKat here], this time with two new constitutional complaints filed against the UPC. Juve Patent has reported on this recent turn of events. Copyright Following Germany, Austria... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/01/guest-post-role-of-big-data-seps-paes.html Last year, Premier Cercle hosted their IP event in Sweden at the headquarters of Volvo Cars focusing on IP in the automotive industry (see IPKat reports here and here). The year before focused on IP in aerospace (see here). This year’s Summit was hosted by Microsoft and focused more broadly... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/swedish-patent-and-market-court-of.html In an interesting decision from this month, the Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal considered whether the Crocs Classic footwear (depicted below), registered as a national three-dimensional trade mark, could be cancelled because it consisted exclusively of a shape, which resulted from the nature of the goods themselves... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/general-court-says-that-mark-and-marq.html In a recent decision, the General Court upheld the EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal’s (the Board) findings regarding the likelihood of confusion between the two signs ‘MARK’ and ‘MARQ’. The General Court considered that there was a low degree of similarity between the goods in Class 11 covered by... Continue reading
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