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IPEC serves up a hot trade mark exhaustion decision, with a side of Cofemel, in AGA Rangemaster v UK Innovations

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/ipec-serves-up-hot-trade-mark.html In a recent decision ([2024] EWHC 1727 (IPEC)) on exhaustion of trade marks, the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC), a section of the High Court of England & Wales, held that AGA Rangemaster Group Limited (AGA) had legitimate reasons to object to the sales and marketing activities of a company... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_27.html Starting with a brand new week, here is your weekly catch-up! Technology Law Image by Riana Harvey Katfriend Victoria Dipla reviewed the book Technology, Intellectual Property Law and Culture: the Tangification of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Megan Rae Blakely. It primarily focuses on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and its... Continue reading
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New referral to the CJEU: When is a trade mark deceptive?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-referral-to-cjeu-when-is-trade-mark.html The current (third) Trade Mark Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2436, ‘TMD3’) contains two separate provisions dealing with deceptive trade marks. According to Art. 4(1)(g) TMD3 a trade mark may not be registered or, if registered, may be declared invalid if the trade mark is of such a nature as to... Continue reading
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[Guest Book Review] Technology, Intellectual Property Law and Culture: the Tangification of Intangible Cultural Heritage

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-book-review-technology.html This book review of “Intellectual Property Law and Culture, the tangification of intangible cultural heritage”, written by Megan Rae Blakely, is kindly provided by Katfriend Victoria Dipla (Greek Lawyer, IGNITE Trainee Solicitor Clifford and Chance LLP London). Here is what Victoria has to say: This is a review of... Continue reading
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Saturday Sundries

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/saturday-sundries.html Summer is still far from over and it’s time to find out about the latest IP opportunities and events. A Kat enjoying Summer Events 4-5 October 2024: EIPTN’s 16th Anniversary Conference The EIPTN will hold its16th Anniversary Conference on 4 and 5 October 2024 at the Saint-Louis Brussels city... Continue reading
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Falling between the cracks: The challenges of patent strategy for stem cell therapies (T 1259/22)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/falling-between-cracks-challenges-of.html Cell therapy is a highly innovative therapeutic strategy that uses living cells to combat disease. Cell therapy strategies include stem cells for tissue regeneration and repair, immune cells engineered to combat cancer and genetically edited cells for the treatment of genetic disorders. Drug products composed of populations of living... Continue reading
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[UPCKat] UPC asserts its jurisdiction in parallel patent proceedings in Mala v Nokia dispute

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/upckat-upc-asserts-its-jurisdiction-in.html One of these things looks like the other…. The UPCKat team is back covering an order which saw the Paris Central Division foraying into the wonderful world of EU regulations, namely Regulation (EU) No 1215/2012 (recast), to determine whether it had jurisdiction when there were parallel German proceedings pending... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_20.html If you missed out on The IPKat during your summer holidays and want to catch up on some IP news or discover exciting opportunities and events, then join this Kat for a summary of what you missed. Geographical Indications Anastasiia Kyrylenko commented on the Munich’s Higher Regional Court’s decision in the... Continue reading
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OLG Munich decides on GI’s generic character and exploitation of GI reputation in the Habana II case

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/olg-munich-decides-on-gis-generic.html The German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has recently denied the request for appeal against the ruling of the Munich’s Higher Regional Court (OLG Munich) in the Habana II case (6 U 120/22). This has prompted this Kat to comment on the OLG Munich’s ruling in Habana II, which... Continue reading
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INTA, MARQUES and OMV v CJEU, General Court and BoA – The trade mark battle of the year?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/08/inta-marques-and-omv-v-cjeu-general.html When two heavyweights such as INTA and MARQUES enter the ring and file statements in intervention with the General Court, you can bet that the case is interesting. INTA and MARQUES are doing nothing more than challenging the consistent case law of the Court of Justice of the EU... Continue reading