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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-top-ten-highlights-of-china.html Since 2009, every year the National Copyright Administration of China (NCAC) solicits nominations from all sectors of society for ‘The Top Ten Highlights of China Copyright’. On 11 February, the NCAC announced the ten winners for 2019 (see Katpost on the result of 2018 here). 1. Significant achievements in combating... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/big-horn-signs-infringe-red-bulls-eu.html One of the ‘Big Horn’ signs in question Like many a world renowned brand, Red Bull has inevitably faced difficulties on the trade mark front, both in the registration and maintenance of its marks (see here), and in its opposition of ‘similar’ marks for which registration has been sought.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/guest-post-event-report-multi-sided.html Last week, the South African Research Chair in Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development (the IP Chair) hosted the official book launch for my new book, Multi-sided Music Platforms and the Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. The event consisted of a “fireside chat” between me... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/does-delta-really-denote.html Delta Sport’s logo The General Court of the EU (‘the Court’) recently (13 February 2020) issued its judgment in Case T-387/18 Delta-Sport Handelskontor GmbH v European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Background The case concerned an application to register a figurative trade mark in relation to Classes 9, 10, 18, 20,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_18.html If you missed the IPKat posts from last week, here comes a recap! While you were sleeping Patents GuestKat Rose Hughes covers the latest instalment of the dispute over the CRISPR gene-editing patent (T 844/18). The Broad Institute, CRISPR patent owner, is apparently preparing to file a petition requesting... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/ii-international-congress-on-artificial.html The Foundation for Research on Law and Business (FIDE, acronym in Spanish) is organizing the “II International Congress on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property”, under the coordination of Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, Professor Aurelio López-Tarruella and Professor Manuel Desantes Real. The theme of this year’s international congress is “In Search of a... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-copyright-snafu-in-making.html Are A&R scouts in the music industry next in the growing list of humans whose jobs are shortly to be appropriated by machine learning? Snafu Records seems to think so. Snafu, which is backed by various music industry bigwigs, claims to have developed an algorithm that finds new music... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/guest-post-new-empirical-research-on.html The IPKat is happy to host this guest contribution by Prof Martin Kretschmer (CREATe, University of Glasgow): New empirical research on Intellectual Property Litigation and Platform Regulation by Martin Kretschmer CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Centre based at the University of Glasgow, is presenting new empirical research in... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/call-for-wipo-indigenous-fellowship.html The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is calling for Expression of Interest for its Indigenous Fellowship Program. The program was launched in 2009. It is part of WIPO’s series initiatives seeking to involve indigenous people in the work carried out by the organization with the goal, inter alia, of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/02/around-ip-blogs_17.html Will this Oracle offer such entrancing arguments? Welcome to this week’s summary of posts and news from around the IP blogs – including, but not limited to, quite a few posts with a red, white and blue tinge! Copyright Lots of IP enthusiasts reported and commented on the latest... Continue reading
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