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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_22.html This Kat is excited to bring you all the highlights of last week from a rainy South Africa… A great day to stay inside and catch up on some IP news… COPYRIGHT In Denmark, the general opinion has long been that assignment from the author to a music publisher of “all rights... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/around-ip-blogs_22.html The extra winter weight Copyright While EU Member States are struggling with the implementation of Art. 17 of the DSM Directive [see The IPKat’s comment on the German implementation proposal here], the Polish referral as to the article’s incompatibility with the EU Fundamental Rights Charter is pending before the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/book-review-patent-games-in-global-south.html On this Kat’s night stand during the long, locked-down nights in Florence was Amaka Vanni’s monograph Patent Games in the Global South: Pharmaceutical Patent Law-Making in Brazil, India and Nigeria (Hart 2020). Vanni is not just a legal scholar, but also a documentary filmmaker—and it shows in her writing.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/cannabis-conceptual-comparison-and.html Kats come back, even if not on the very next day. This time it is former Guest Kat Antonella Gentile, who has kindly provided IPKat with a report of the recent EUIPO gathering (“Tertulia”) on recent trademark case law. This blogger recently had the opportunity to attend the EUIPO... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/guest-post-implementation-of-article-17.html The IPKat is pleased to host the following guest post by Martin Senftleben and Christina Angelopoulos, focusing on the forthcoming national transpositions of Article 17 of Directive 2019/790 (CDSMS) [Katposts here] and what lies ahead for EU policy and law. Here’s what Martin and Christina write: The Implementation of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/mind-gap-beijing-ip-court-explains.html The Beijing IP Court (the Court), founded on 6 November 2014, has been playing an active role in the promotion of IP protection through various means, e.g. by holding press conferences addressing specific topics (see a previous IPKat post: Beijing IP Court: let’s talk about short video copyrights) and... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/guest-post-christmas-wish-for-jamaica.html The IPKat is delighted to host the following contribution by Dr Natalie Corthèsy, Associate Dean of Outreach and Continuing Legal Education and Lecturer in Law at The Faculty of Law The University of the West Indies Mona Campus Jamaica, on recent IP developments in her beautiful home country. Here’s... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/competition-law-in-pharmaceutical.html Readers interested in the application of competition law principles in the pharmaceutical sector will be pleased to learn that the annual conference on ‘Competition Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector’ will be also running this year, though – for reasons obvious to everyone – in an online format. Taking place... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/two-arnolds-for-price-of-one-part-2.html The second (and final) part of our series of Court of Appeal judgments in breach of confidence cases concerns The Racing Partnership Limited and Ors v Sports Information Services Limited [2020] EWCA Civ 1300. The dispute was factually complex, and the judge at first instance (Zacaroli J) really had the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/11/guest-post-sisvel-v-xiaomi-seps-and.html Katfriends Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Luke McDonagh (London School of Economics) kindly provided the following post on a recent decision by the District Court of the Hague in the ongoing patent battle between Sisvel and Xiaomi [here, prior Katposts on the preliminary injunction proceedings here and... Continue reading
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