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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/around-ip-blogs.html Beauty is in the eye of the (cat) beholder Patents The Patently-O Blog featured a guest post by Profs. Jorge L. Conteras and Yang Yu, who discussed the impact of China’s new anti-suit injunctions (namely, an injunction issued by a national judicial authority, which prevents parties to litigate in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html Before we start the new week, let’s see what the Kats were up to last week… PATENTS Art. 53(c) EPC prohibits the grant of European patents in respect of “methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery“. The EPO Boards of Appeal recently had the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/guest-post-how-can-afcfta-advance.html The IPKat is pleased to publish this report from Charlene Musiza, who attended the first session in the webinar series organised by University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance on “How can the AfCFTA Advance Transformative Industrialisation?” Coming a day before the World Trade Organization’s (WTO)... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/hague-court-of-appeal-sets-dutch.html Hot off the press is a decision by the Hague Court of Appeal (CoA) of 27 October 2020 handing Eli Lilly another win in its pan-European battle over infringement of its pemetrexed patents [here, in Dutch]. Eli Lilly’s patent enforcement campaign has resulted in numerous decisions, including landmark rulings... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-review-reasonable-robot-artificial.html In the description of The Reasonable Robot, Artificial Intelligence and the Law by Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey) it says: Abbott argues that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behaviour and proposes a new legal principle that will ultimately improve human well-being. This Kat was intrigued to... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/two-arnolds-for-price-of-one-part-1.html Lord Justice Arnold’s work-rate is the stuff of legend, so it is perhaps unsurprising that we have recently been treated to not one, but two, Court of Appeal judgments delivered by Arnold LJ, on the same day. Both cases relate to confidential information, a relatively unloved (but often hugely valuable)... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/aidan-robson-1960-2020.html Aidan Robson (1960-2020) It was with great sadness that the IPKat has learned of the death of patent attorney, Aidan Robson, on 20 September 2020 from a heart attack. Aidan was a well-known figure in the patent community in the UK and abroad. Fresh from his MSc at Oxford... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/wednesday-whimsies_28.html This Kat is feeling whimsical Welcome to this week’s bountiful crop of IP events and opportunities. Webinars The British Literary and Artistic Copyright Association is hosting a webinar discussing the potential impact of recent CJEU privacy decisions on copyright law tomorrow, 29 October 2020. For details of speakers and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/book-review-special-protection-of-trade.html Trade marks with a reputation (TMwR) in the EU and the additional layers of protection provided to them, like the famous trade mark regimes in other jurisdictions in general, is a controversial subject surrounded by unresolved problems of ambiguity and uncertainty that, sometimes, involves political databases over, for instances,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/10/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_24.html This Kat is looking forward to the clocks changing As ever, it’s never too late to catch up on last week’s IPKat posts. Trade Marks GuestKat Nedim Malovic summarised a recent decision of the EUIPO Fourth Board of Appeal in respect of the likelihood of confusion between certain football-themed... Continue reading
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