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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/sunday-surprises.html Here are some events for you to keep your diary full… Webinars The IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Network is pleased to announce the Third IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference, which will be held ONLINE on 24-27 March 2021. Researchers, including Ph.D. candidates,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-search-for-zombie-trademarks.html Kat friends are a diverse lot, with a variety of exotic IP interests. For Kat friend, Carlo Sala, this includes the search for zombie marks, as he describes below. In voodoo practice, a zombie is a corpse brought back to life by some supernatural power. I am unaware whether,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/interview-with-new-chief-executive-of.html On 1 August 2020, Mrs. Rena Lee was named the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS). IPKat is delighted that Mrs. Lee has agreed to be interviewed in connection with her appointment. 1. Hello Mrs. Lee, and thank you for the interview. Perhaps you can... Continue reading
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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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