• [Guestpost]: IP implications of 3D printing, a new study

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/guestpost-ip-implications-of-3d.html The use, adoption and application of 3D printing has increased rapidly in recent times, particularly in the health sector during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic with schools, universities, organisations and individuals uniting to produce personal protective equipment (PPE), and life-saving respiratory valves. Recognising this growth in 3D printing,... Continue reading

     
  • Keeping up with Dutch patent litigation: Half-year case law review 2020

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/06/dutch-patent-infringement-review-jan.html Finding it difficult to keep up with an ever-changing world in the midst of a health, environmental, social and political crisis, while keeping up with patent law?  Do not worry, the IPKat is doing a series of half-yearly “catch-ups” of the main European patent law jurisdictions before we all... Continue reading

     
  • Around the IP Blogs

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/around-ip-blogs_23.html A few months ago the world seemed to have taken a time-out. However, the time-out long gone and this IP world is buzzing again with news. This Kat has some of highlights here… Patents Federal Circuit indicates that conventional technologies can be used in unconventional ways! The U.S. Court... Continue reading

     
  • Sunday Surprises

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/sunday-surprises_23.html In a cat’s eye Conferences and webinars  On August 25th, the WIPO Nigeria Office and the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center will conduct a practical webinar on WIPO alternative dispute resolution options for resolving entertainment disputes in Nigeria. Participation is free of charge, but registration through the link above... Continue reading

     
  • IPKat Reader Discount: UIC John Marshall Law School’s 64th Annual IP Conference

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/ipkat-reader-discount-uic-john-marshall.html Registration is now open for UIC John Marshall Law School’s 64th Annual Intellectual Property (IP) Conference on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. For the first time, it will be online and accessible to anyone from their office or at home. With over 80 conference faculty, 14 sessions, virtual receptions, and... Continue reading

     
  • Book Review: Law, Technology and Cognition

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/book-review-law-technology-and-cognition.html Our SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at Brunel University London, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Intellectual Property, Policy and Management, and the founder of World IP Women. She is also the author of a recent publication, Law, Technology and Cognition. The... Continue reading

     
  • Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_19.html This Kat has sufficiency (of mice) objections Welcome to the latest IPKat roundup, which should especially cheer fans of patent news and views. Patents Kodak’s most recent endeavours, by way of an announced pivot to generic pharmaceutical manufacturing thanks to a US government COVID-response loan, swiftly followed by an... Continue reading

     
  • Should a pseudonym be changed: George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, and the “Reclaim her Name” project

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/should-pseudonym-be-changed-george.html What’s in a pseudonym? When it comes to George Eliot and her 19th- century novel, Middlemarch, described by some as the greatest novel in the English language, the answer may about to change. This Kat remembers, having been conscripted in his high school English class to read the Victorian... Continue reading

     
  • No CJEU reference (yet) as Mannheim Court grants injunction in Nokia v Daimler in further return to old Orange Book days

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/no-cjeu-reference-yet-as-mannheim-court.html Which way next for Nokia v Daimler? In a slightly puzzling decision out of the Mannheim Regional Court’s Second Civil Chamber, an injunction potentially preventing sales of Mercedes vehicles in Germany has been issued. Its press release (in German) can be found here. The dispute in Case 2 O... Continue reading

     
  • Sunday Surprises

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/sunday-surprises.html A hungry cat Conferences  This year, the EPIP Conference will be held online from September 9th to 11th . The conference programme is available at the dedicated webpage. Participation is free of charge, but registration before September 5th is required.  The UIC John Marshall Law School will also held... Continue reading