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Celgard secures UK injunction to protect alleged trade secrets

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/celgard-secures-uk-injunction-to.html Celgard has secured an interim injunction to prevent the supply in the UK of battery separators manufactured by its rival, Senior, which are alleged to misuse Celgard’s confidential information and/or trade secrets, in a High Court judgment from Mr Justice Trower (Celgard, LLC v Shenzhen Senior Technology Material Co Ltd [2020]... Continue reading
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Friday Fantasies

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/friday-fantasies.html This Kat is looking out for new IP opportunities Welcome to another week of unmissable (unmiscable?) IP miscellany. Conferences & EventsHeld online from 7-9 September 2020, this year’s edition of ‘Standards and Patents: Law and Litigation’ offers opportunities to learn and network. IPKat readers can enjoy a 15% discount... Continue reading
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The improbable marriage of popcorn and movie theatres (no break-up anticipated)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-improbable-marriage-of-popcorn-and_4.html A cottage industry on the internet has pondered the fate of the move theatre in a Covid-19 world, including this Kat, here. What is most notable is the seemingly ineluctable linking of a coronavirus-darkened movie theatre with the absence of the aroma of hot, fresh popcorn. Copyright and related... Continue reading
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‘Off-White’ goods not inherently or objectively ‘off-white’ in colour – so trade mark not descriptive in nature, says EU General Court

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/off-white-goods-not-inherently-or.html The luxury fashion brand ‘Off-White’ is renowned for unique collaborations with other well-known brands (Ikea, Nike and Jimmy Choo, to name a few), as well as its forays into the realm of IP registration, particularly in the US. From red zip ties to paperclip jewellery to even diagonal streetwalk lines, the... Continue reading
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Windowing, anti-competition and the Amendments to the 6th Edition of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/windowing-anti-competition-and.html Earlier in June, Nigeria’s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) published Amendments to the 6th Edition of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code (NBC Code amendments), after public presentation of the amendments to stakeholders in the broadcast media industry in Nigeria. The NBC Code amendments provide inter alia for web/online broadcasting, prohibition of... Continue reading
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The process may (or may not) be the product: trade secrets and COVID research

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-process-may-or-may-not-be-product.html Former Katonomist, Nicola Searle, brings her research attention in trade secrets to bear on the question of the extent to which trade secrets may impede the development of COVID-19 research and treatments. Like many economists, I was recently delighted to learn my training also makes me an epidemiologist, of... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html It is a new month, which calls for some form of celebration! If you have nothing yet planned, you can indulge in the mouth-watering articles below… Reading and laying in the sun…can this day get any better?! PATENTS Inventiveness of an expandable hose might not be so obvious in... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/08/around-ip-blogs.html Although the IP developments came to a summer halt, we still have an overview of some interesting posts (mostly about patents) to share with our readers. A different kind of cat Patents In the on-going context of Covid-19, the SpicyIP blog analyses the relevance of Art. 73(b) TRIPS, granting... Continue reading
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The extended but not unlimited protection of trade marks with a repute: Hugo Boss loses battle against ‘BOSS SHOT’ due to the difference between goods at issue

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-extended-but-not-unlimited.html In an decision delivered earlier this month concerning an opposition filed by Hugo Boss, which owns the mark ‘BOSS’, the EUIPO Second Board of Appeal acknowledged that – despite the similarity of the marks in question – the required ‘link’ under Article 8(5) of the EU Trade Mark Regulation... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] Warming Up: The Legality Issue of Fan Fiction Is Back on Appeal in Mainland China

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/guest-post-warming-up-legality-issue-of.html The IPKat is delighted to receive a guest post by Xi Lin (PhD candidate in IP law at Maastricht University) commenting on Jin Yong v Jiang Nan. It was the first fan fiction case in China, in which the legal status of unlicensed fan work was tested in court.... Continue reading