• TuneIn to the sound of communication to the public (Part 2)

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/tunein-to-sound-of-communication-to_10.html As set out in Part 1 of this post here, Mr Justice Birss found that (most of) the services of TuneIn Radio amount to an act of communication to the public of the relevant works of Warner Music and Sony Music. TuneIn infringes the copyright of Warner Music and... Continue reading

     
  • Around the IP Blogs

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/around-ip-blogs.html Welcome to 2020! Here’s what happened around the IP blogs while you were digital detoxing over eggnog. Mittens is casually easing into another decade of IP bloggingSource: Cats are on top  End of the year (and decade) content  Patent industry insiders shared their Christmas wishlists on IP Watchdog. Their... Continue reading

     
  • Reader discount for IPKat book award titles!

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/reader-discount-for-ipkat-book-award.html Following the announcemet of the nominations and winners of the 2019 IPKat book of the year awards here, Oxford University Press have kindly offered to provide IPKat readers with a discount on their titles that were included. Each of the following winning and nominated titles are now available for... Continue reading

     
  • New Year, Same Creative Authorship Requirement in US Copyright

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-year-same-creative-authorship.html As 2019 faded and 2020 rose, the US Copyright Office Review Board affirmed two registration refusals; both concerned the attempted registration of layouts used in digital platforms. One regarded a mobile app to monitor energy usage, the other concerned the form of a web application displaying the various procedures... Continue reading

     
  • Sheeran v Chokri Part 2: Admission of similar fact evidence

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/sheeran-v-chokri-part-2-admission-of.html Readers may remember the case of Ed Sheeran and Sam Chokri, discussed by this Kat back in August 2018 here. The case is still on going and the most recent hearing before Mr Justice Nugee took place on the 9th December 2019 in the High Court of England and... Continue reading

     
  • Trademark infringement and Google PLA ads – Lessons from “Ortlieb”?

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/trademark-infringement-and-google-pla.html Kat friend Markus Rouvinen shares his thoughts on the possible legal status of product listing ads (PLA’s) The fundamentals of trademark infringement in relation to traditional keyword advertising in the EU have largely been settled. However, more complex and increasingly common types of search engine advertising, such as comparison-shopping... Continue reading

     
  • AIPPI UK Event Report: Roundup of 2019’s Patent Cases

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/aippi-uk-event-report-roundup-of-2019s.html The AmeriKat peering into 2020 and whatthis year’s patent cases will hold… While the AmeriKat was coughing herself across the Atlantic home for Christmas, other IP lawyers were making their ways across London’s twinkle light illuminated pavements to AIPPI’s annual Patent Round-Up held at Hogan Lovells’ London office.  The... Continue reading

     
  • Sale of second-hand goods not genuine use of Aiwa trade mark

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/sale-of-second-hand-goods-not-genuine.html On the 13th December 2019, Mr Justice Mann delivered his judgement of Aiwa Co. Ltd V Aiwa Corp in the UK High Court. This was an appeal from the UK Trade Mark Registry, a decision of the hearing officer delivered on 4th February 2019, concerning the issue of whether... Continue reading

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

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html We have a lot to catch up on, don’t we? As the new year begins (and we return to the real world sans holiday spirit), take this opportunity to catch up on everything that The IPKat covered over the holiday period! Happy New Year! May 2020 be even better... Continue reading

     
  • IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2019 winners announced!

    http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/ipkat-book-of-year-awards-2019-winners.html Thank you to those readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards. Here are the nominees and winners – Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Visser’s Annotated European Patent Convention, by Derk Visser, Laurence Lai, Peter de Lange, Kaisa Suominen Patent Remedies and Complex Products... Continue reading