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Book Review: The Law of Domain Names and Cybersquatting

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/book-review-law-of-domain-names-and.html A Practical Guide to the Law of Domain Names and Cybersquatting by Andrew Clemson, Trade Mark Attorney and senior associate at Cleveland Scott York. There is growing concern around domain names and cyber squatting, as recognised in the 2018 World Intellectual Property Organisation report which demonstrated the increase in... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/around-ip-blogs_10.html Autumn is here, and the IPKat found some stories that are more delectable than pumpkin spice lattes. Patent Not exactly famous for its IP prowess, the U.S. Supreme Court is stepping up its IP game this term. It is confirmed to hear a whopping six IP cases and considering... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last.html Last week was definitely punctuated with a lot of developments in copyright law! If you missed out on some of these developments, as well as those in other areas of IP, never fear – Never Too Late is here! Copyright SpecialKat Hayleigh Bosher reports on an injunction claim... Continue reading
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Book Review: Digital Copyright Law and Practice

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/book-review-digital-copyright-law-and.html Digital Copyright, Law and Practice by Simon Stokes offers a readable introduction to digital copyright and related areas such as moral rights, database rights and competition law. Simon Stokes is a partner at Blake Morgan and leads the firm’s technology practice in London, he specialises in information technology law, including outsourcing,... Continue reading
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GSK fails in purple inhaler passing off claim against Sandoz and Vectura (…and breathe)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/gsk-fails-in-purple-inhaler-passing-off.html Lord Justice Arnold (as he now is) has handed down his customarily chunky judgment in the latest stage of “Purple Inhaler Wars” [ideas for a better name on a postcard, please] in Glaxo Wellcome UK Limited and Anor v Sandoz Limited and Ors [2019] EWHC 2545. This GuestKat finds the final... Continue reading
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Beijing Internet Court: whether a short video is original or not has nothing to do with its length

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/beijing-internet-court-whether-short.html Do you have TikTok on your phone? Well, this Kat does – only, she has the Chinese version: Douyin (‘抖音’, which literally means ‘shaking sound’). Launched in September 2016, Douyin rapidly gained huge popularity. By December 2018, Douyin had 250 million average daily active users and 500 million monthly... Continue reading
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Tuesday Thingies

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/tuesday-thingies.html Keep your eyes wide open – more events are still to come! Intellectual property law elicits the organisation of so many interesting events and lectures that it is sometimes hard to keep up. So, here is a special Tuesday Thingies miscellany post, solely dedicated to events coming up soon!... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/never-too-late.html Hope this Never Too Late post is not too late. Here come all the posts contributed by the Kats two weeks ago. Copyright Eleonora Rosati reports the judgement in Google v CNIL, C-507/17, in which the CJEU rules that in ‘right to be forgotten’ cases, a search engine cannot... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] Can the Government Get Your Copyright? The Supreme Court of Canada Says “Yes”.

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/guest-post-can-government-get-your.html This Kat found it quite fascinating when she saw last week that Canada’s Supreme Court ruled on the question of whether the Government of Ontario, Canada owned copyright in a work created for someone else (home owners, developers and other private citizens who commission surveyors), but used by a... Continue reading
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Have Associated Newspapers made a Royal error publishing Megan Markle’s private letter?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/10/have-associated-newspapers-made-royal.html Meghan Markle, Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday and its parent company Associated Newspapers, after they published a private letter from Meghan to her father earlier this year.In a press release, the lawyers for The Duchess of Sussex said that they have... Continue reading