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High Court grants, for the first time, website blocking orders targeting cyberlocker and streamripping sites/app and considers that CJEU won’t follow AG Opinion in YouTube/Cyando

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/high-court-grants-for-first-time.html Kat blocking Earlier this week, the High Court of England and Wales issued two website blocking orders, which set new precedent and are the expression of a further development in the rich UK website blocking jurisprudence. The orders, which were issued by Miles J further to applications made by... Continue reading
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Assignment in gross, or not? What happened to the goodwill?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/assignment-in-gross-or-not-what.html Trademark assignments and the transfer of the goodwill seem, well, oh-so dull, until they are not. Kat friend Ian Gill reports on a recent cautionary tale from the UK. Scott Hallsworth is a renowned Australian chef who created and opened a chain of London-based restaurants in 2013 under the... Continue reading
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Sisvel v. Haier II: Further insights on German judiciary’s FRAND approach

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/sisvel-v-haier-ii-further-insights-on.html IPKat friends, Professor Peter Georg Picht, and PhD student Erik Habich, from the university of Zurich, share with us further insights on the German FRAND approach. Only seven months after the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) handed down its first decision on the CJEU’s Huawei/ZTE mechanism for licensing... Continue reading
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Book Review: Intellectual Property in the Era of Big Data and Blockchain

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/book-review-intellectual-property-in.html This Kat has once again the pleasure to review a volume of the series on intellectual property law, edited by Prof. Jacques de Werra at the Law School of the University of Geneva [check here for the previous volume on non-traditional trade marks]. Most of the volumes in this... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_21.html Patents Rose Hughes shared two pieces, discussing recent changes in the practice of the European Patent Office. The first one addressed the legality of Board of Appeal’s hearings by video conference: the corresponding referral has now been referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal. The second one presented the... Continue reading
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Sunday Surprises

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/sunday-surprises_21.html Can’t miss anything… It’s Sunday which means it’s time for you to fill your diary with some events… Webinars Join Fashion Law London on 13 April 2021 for an event entirely dedicated to sustainability and its legal significance for the fashion sector! Tickets are available here. ECTA... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Here we draw again: the never-ending debate around street art and its removal

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/guest-post-here-we-draw-again-never.html The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Federica Pezza (Hogan Lovells) on copyright protection of street art and the consequences of unauthorised destruction thereof. Here’s what Federica writes: Here we draw again: the never-ending debate around street art and its removal by Federica Pezza Spain,... Continue reading
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From footnote to endnote to what note?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/from-footnote-to-endnote-to-what-note.html Noël Coward once opined — Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love. Being an IP blog, this Kat will focus on the subject matter of the first part of Coward’s observation. The most salient question today... Continue reading
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Five considerations for the transposition and application of Article 17 of the DSM Directive

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/five-considerations-for-transposition.html Merpel’s favourite platforms Nearly two years have passed since the adoption of the Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market 2019/790 (DSM Directive). As it was probably bound to happen, the discussion of its content – notably of its Article 17 – is no less heated now than... Continue reading
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Board of Appeal considers the legal basis and effect of the EPO’s 2020 COVID-19-related deadline extension (J10/02)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/board-of-appeal-considers-legal-basis.html Just over a year ago, the burgeoning COVID-19 pandemic prompted an unprecedented extension of all deadlines at the EPO (OJ EPO 2020, A29) (IPKat). Subsequent announcements in the official journal (OJ) eventually extended all deadlines to June 2020. A recently published Board of Appeal decision (J 10/20) is the first... Continue reading