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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/sweet-grapes-sour-grapes-or-grapes-of.html “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno”, “Un pour tous, tous pour un”, and “One for all, all for one”; whether in Latin, French or English; whether the unofficial motto of Switzerland or a famous line from “The Three Musketeers” by Alexander Dumas, the saying has become a by-word for... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/farewell-post-can-qr-codes-be.html QR codes have become well-nigh ubiquitous so that it was merely a question of time until courts had to deal with applications for QR codes as trade marks. For my last post as a GuestKat, it seems fitting to draw Kat readers’ attention to a recent Swiss decision dealing... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_27.html This Kat has had entirely too much turkey With another year drawing to a close, there’s roundups and retrospectives all round. Copyright The first instalment of SpecialKat and Africa Correspondent Chijioke Okorie’s 2020 Africa IP Highlights roundup shone a light on key decisions and reforms in the copyright sphere. Trade... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/holiday-surprises.html A Spanish cat Vacancies The Law Faculty of the University of Maastricht has opened four four-year positions for PhD candidates. Successful candidates will be offered a full-time contract, starting preferably in September 2021. The deadline for submitting the application is March 15, 2021. As part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/purchasing-online-copyright.html A Kat sees her own reflection A potential circuit split in U.S. copyright law exists over the volitional act requirement for copyright infringement liability (see Katpost by Ieva Gierdrimaite addressing VHT v. Zillow Cert. petition). Is purchasing and operating a website with locally-hosted infringing content a volitional act? Last week,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/book-review-internet-law-and-regulation.html This Kat has been looking forward to reading Sweet & Maxwell’s fifth edition of Internet Law and Regulation for a long time. She must confess that the book was trapped in her office since she left there unknowingly for the last time earlier this year, way back in March!... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/around-ip-blogs_23.html Before we get ready to leave 2020 behind, let’s have a look at what happened in the IP world the past week… It was a loooong year… Patents A recent decision of the CJEU in a patent-related matter questions the former common understanding in Hungary: requesting an interim... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/aippi-uk-event-report-roundup-of-2020s.html The AmeriKat has her mittens onin time for the cold, wintertradition of the AIPPI patentroundup A couple of weeks ago, instead of descending upon the hospitality of Hogan Lovells’ London offices to devour patent law and mince pies, AIPPI UK members instead virtually attended the annual tradition that is... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/africa-ip-highlights-2020-4-enforcement.html This post is the fourth and final installment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2020 series” of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2020. The first 3 posts covered copyright, trademarks and patents and designs. As previously stated, the series is the result of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/ipkat-book-of-year-awards-2020-vote.html Dear readrers, here is your friendly reminder to vote for your favourite books of 2020 for the IPKat book of the year award! Submit your votes before 30th December 2020 via this link Nothing but festive naps on the menuImage: Christa Please only vote once. If you vote multiply times... Continue reading
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