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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/guest-post-ip-education-series-4.html New year, new installment of the IP Education Series! (Previous posts: Intro, #1, #2, and #3) This guest post, by Professor Dinusha Mendis, illustrates where the minds of IP and engineering students meet with fantastic results! Over to Dinusha: Learning from each other at University – when IP law... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-united-kingdom-will-not-transpose.html The IPKat has just learned that, currently, UK Government has no plans to transpose the recently adopted Digital Single Market Directive 2019/790 [Katposts here] into its own legal system. As it can be read on parliament.uk, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Chris Skidmore, has... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-swedish-patent-and-market-court.html Kat friend Hans Eriksson discusses a recent decision from Sweden on the timely issue of blocking injunctions. Over the last few years, blocking injunction jurisprudence has become one of the more interesting issues of copyright law. Kat readers may recognize the flexible and powerful blocking orders recently issued by... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-right-of-public-to-access-documents.html The CJEU delivered two rulings yesterday ( January 22, 2020) in the cases of PTC Therapeutics International v EMA case (C-175/18 P) and MSD Animal Health Innovation and Intervet International v EMA case (C-178/18 P). Read them hereand here! These two rulings are of particular interest since the CJEU was for... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/no-music-is-free-of-broadcasting-rights.html In the world of music licensing, a cautionary tale was recently told by the French Cour de Cassation involving background music, a carpet store and collective management societies. Musicmatic France (now Storever France) is a company providing “audio concepts for higher customer satisfaction”, a.k.a. background music in stores. The... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-cambridge-handbook-of.html Baba Yaga enjoying the fruits of privatisation image source: Reddit History has thrown a lot at Central and Eastern Europe. In the last 200 years, this region saw the fall of the Austro-Hungarian empire, endured continued regional conflicts, gave Communism a go, and experienced some of the most violent... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/tuesday-thingies.html Feeling the January blues? Let the IPKat spice up your life with events and opportunities. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Leeds Are you an outstanding individual with expertise in intellectual property law and the ambition to contribute to the further development of the School’s Centre... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_20.html It seems the world of IP has officially got back into the swing of things after the winter break, with new cases of 2020 starting to emerge that The IPKat is all too keen to keep you up-to-date with! But, before we do that… On the lookout for the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-year-new-feature.html IPKat received some suggestions from readers regarding the addition of a “Print” button for all the posts published on the blog. So, we hear you! The IPKat is delighted to announce the release of the following new feature, which can now be found at the end of each post,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/taking-measure-of-prior-art-t-194315.html A picture may speak a thousand words, but how many of those words are clear and unambiguous? In a recently published Board of Appeal decision (T 1943/15), the Board considered the circumstances under which a disclosure of a component’s dimension may be derived solely from the patent drawings, either by eye or... Continue reading
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