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Australian High Court overturns 150 years of precedent to adopt exhaustion of rights doctrine for patented products

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/australian-high-court-overturns-160.html It is a broadly accepted principle of patent law throughout the world that patent rights in a product are exhausted on sale. The product become the personal property of the purchaser who may then dispose of it as they see fit, including resale. Despite this generally accepted principle, there... Continue reading
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EQE 2021: Further details on examination timings and paper format released

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/eqe-2021-further-details-on-examination.html The EPO has released the first detailed information for candidates on the arrangements for the online pre-EQE and EQE next year. Full details can be read here. The examinations are scheduled to take place the week of 1 March 2021. The online exams will be taken using the dramatically... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html This Kat is feeling festive As temperatures drop and the winter nights draw in, what better way to unwind than catching up on last week’s IPKat? Copyright European Union law in the field of website blocking injunctions – especially against the third-party sale of devices and software meant to... Continue reading
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IFIM Holiday Seminar – Tales of the New Doctors of Law

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/ifim-holiday-seminar-tales-of-new.html The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University, of which I have the honour and pleasure of being the new Director, is organizing a new event which will be of interest to those working on and researching the following topics: Damages in IP cases Copyright... Continue reading
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Is it time to move on from the AI inventor debate?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/12/is-it-time-to-move-on-from-ai-inventor.html This Kat has long argued that the discussion of AI inventorship is premature (IPKat: The mirage of AI invention – nothing more than advanced trial and error?). However, the subject of AI inventorship remains (for want of a better word) trendy. Following the widely publicised submission of two patent... Continue reading
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Wondering how to draft an order for a website blocking injunction? Read the Matchroom Boxing Limited Case

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/wondering-how-to-draft-order-for.html The High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England and Wales, has come out with another ruling concerning blocking injunctions, this time in the case of Matchroom Boxing Ltd and another v British Telecommunications plc and others [2020] EWHC 2868 (Ch) (here). The case involved an application... Continue reading
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“The Queen’s Gambit”, “Emma” and the changing dynamics of content creation, distribution and star power

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-queens-gambit-emma-and-changing.html What happens when success brings not only its own reward, but also rewards others, who may be competitors? Consider the story of “The Queen’s Gambit”. Like many Kat readers, this Kat’s principal coronavirus-imposed viewing of Netflix offerings for October 2020 was the miniseries, “The Queen’s Gambit” (based on the... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_29.html End of autumn spleen Copyright The implementation of Art. 17 of the DSM Directive is currently one of the hottest topics in IP law. Kat Friends Martin Senftleben and Christina Angelopoulous shared their thoughts on the issue, focusing on the importance of the general monitoring ban and on how this prohibition... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/sunday-surprises_29.html As we are about to enter the last month of 2020, let’s have a look at some upcoming events… Webinars The Institutet för Immaterialrätt och Marknadsrätt / Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University is delighted to invite you to attend its traditional Holiday Seminar... Continue reading
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Guest book review: Patent Management

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/guest-book-review-patent-management.html Gustavo Schötz, Professor at the Intellectual Property Center, Universidad Austral, Argentina, and consultant at Schötz & Viascán, kindly reviews Patent Management – Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation for us: We have before us “Patent Management – Protecting Intellectual Property and Innovation”, the first English edition of the “Patentmanagement“, published... Continue reading