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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_30.html It’s always the year of the Kat hereimage source: Etsy, @TerryWolffCustomArts Happy Year of the Rat! According to Chinese mythology, the Jade Emperor invited the entire animal kingdom for a race, and awarded each of the first 12 animals to finish a year of the Chinese zodiac system. The... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/furry-thoughts-on-sky-v-skykick-part-1.html The IPKat has now had some time to put its razor-sharp fangs into the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)’s decision in C-371/18 Sky v. SkyKick [rapid announcement post here] and offers some furry further thoughts. The background to the case, together with an analysis of the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/uk-court-applies-cjeu-cofemel-decision.html IPKat-approved jacquard fabric Yesterday, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC, a specialist court which is part of the Business and Property Courts of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales) issued what appears to be the first UK decision tackling the implications of the judgment of the... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/another-decision-on-ai-generated-work.html Three months ago, this Kat discussed the Feilin v. Baidu case (here), where the Beijing High Court addressed the copyright issues of an AI-generated work. In that case, the court held that the AI-generated work in question could not be protected under copyright law, but would/might (?) be entitled to other... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/remembering-this-kats-cat-and-whats-in.html As behooves its name, cats have played a prominent role on this blog. “No”, one does not need to have a cat as a prerequisite for publishing on IPKat (although it certainly does not hurt ….). And from time to time, IPKat has stepped back to remember feline luminaries... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/breaking-cjeu-in-sky-v-skykick-rules.html It just a few months ago that this blog reported on the Opinion of Advocate General Tanchev in the Sky v SkyKick, C-371/18 case. important A referral from the High Court of Justice of England and Wales made by Arnold J (as he then was), the Sky case is... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-research-handbook-on-patent.html This Kat has reviewed the The “Research Handbook on Patent Law Theory”, second edition Edward Elgar Publishing, edited by Toshiko Takenaka offers a comparative approach by which salient issues of patent law are discussed from the principal vantage of three major jurisdictions, the United States, Europe and Japan. In... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/hastens-sangar-fails-in-trade-mark.html Hästens chequered figurative mark When it comes to figurative marks, distinctiveness very often plays a key role in determining whether such a mark is eligible for trade mark registration. This was the challenge that Hästens faced when it tried (and failed) to register a figurative mark consisting of a... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/book-review-future-of-asian-trade-deals.html Let’s look East: in this recently published book The Future of Asian Trade Deals and IP, Prof. Kung-Chung Liu (Singapore Management University) and Prof. Julien Chaisse (City University of Hong Kong) assemble an icebreaking professional team of authors from trade law and IP law, both with strong Asian backgrounds,... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/01/tuesday-thingies_28.html A jam-packed edition of Tuesday Thingies – this one solely dedicated to events! Keep an eye out for another post later this week that will cover job opportunities and calls for papers (and possibly even more events!) More events for 2020 on the horizon! EventsIP Law Reading Group –... Continue reading
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