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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/guest-book-review-research-handbook-on.html This book review comes to you from Emeritus Katonomist Dr Nicola Searle. Nicola is a Digital Economy Fellow at Goldsmiths, where she has a five-year project on trade secrets and cybersecurity. In her spare time, she likes to pretend she has spare time. Here is Nicola’s review of Research Handbook on the Economics... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/announcing-joint-ipkatblaca-live.html Kat in a tube On Thursday, Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe will issue his much-awaited Opinion in Joined Cases YouTube, C-682/18 and Cyando, C-683/18. The issues at the centre of these important referrals – on which see at greater length here and here – revolve around the key issue of whether... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/copyright-and-social-media-webinar.html This Kat recently presented a webinar with 4IP and the EU IP Helpdesk titled “What you need to know about copyright and social media” where she discussed the remit of social media – how it is being used and what that means in relation to counterfeit goods; how copyright... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_12.html If you missed any IPKat news last week, we got you covered! PATENTS The Patent Examination Board has released more information on the arrangements for the UK patent exams this year, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rose Hughes shared the information. How to deal with abusive patent enforcement within... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/cjeu-follows-ag-and-rules-that-notion.html The IPKat has an email address, but not a postal one (Image by Riana Harvey) Does the notion of ‘address’ only refer to one’s own postal address or does it also encompass one’s own email and IP address, as well as telephone number? This, in a nutshell, is the question... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/around-ip-blogs_12.html Hide and seek Have you been out, enjoying the summer sun? We bring you a recap of the latest news from around the IP blogosphere. Patents A recent decision by the US government to buy out all the existing stock of the remdesivir drug has been discussed by... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-development-of-canadian-literature.html Kat friend Hugh Stephens recounts the oft-overlooked Anglo-US copyright wars of the 19th century and how it may have impeded the development of Canadian literature. Canadian writers are certainly well- known internationally, ranging from Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro to two-time Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood and Booker winners... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/guest-post-eu-commission-opens.html The IPKat is delighted to host this guest contribution by Roosa Tarkiainen, a former IP student of mine at the University of Southampton and – more importantly – an incoming trainee solicitor at Bristows, discussing the recently launched EU Commission’s antitrust investigation into one of the most successful digital... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/guest-post-return-of-orange-book-german.html The IPKat announced a while ago that European FRAND-watchers have three decisions to look out for by the highest courts in the UK, Germany and the Netherlands [Katpost here]. Now, the first of these decisions is available: the German Federal Supreme Court [Bundesgerichtshof] has handed down the written reasons... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/indivisibility-and-visibility-in.html Former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli takes a look at the recent decision of the EU General Court in “L. Oliva Torras v EUIPO – Mecánica del Frío (Attelages pour véhicules)” concerning invalidity of a Community design. On June 10, 2020, the General Court of the European Union conferred a... Continue reading
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