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Screenplay litigation in Nigeria: Missed opportunities in Raconteur Productions Limited v Dioni Visions Entertainment Limited and Others

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/screenplay-litigation-in-nigeria-missed.html On 2 May 2019, the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court of Nigeria delivered its judgment in Suit No. FHC/L/CS/740/2017 Raconteur Productions Limited v Dioni Visions Entertainment Limited and 2 Others (‘Raconteur’). This case concerned the question of copyright infringement of a screenplay produced into a feature film... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Cheaper by the Dozen? Two further CJEU referrals on YouTube’s ‘active role’

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/guest-post-cheaper-by-dozen-two-further.html The IPKat has learned that two further cases have just been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the context of proceedings concerning the right of communication to the public under the InfoSoc Directive, the hosting safe harbour in Article 14 of the E-commerce... Continue reading
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Copyright law issues on U.S. Supreme Court’s next term agenda

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/copyright-law-issues-on-us-supreme.html While the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is on its summer recess, IPKat looks closer at the copyright cases that await it in the next term. Cases on the Merits U. S. Supreme Court In Allen v. Cooper, SOTUS will consider whether Congress, when it enacted the Copyright... Continue reading
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Four Rings to Rule Them All – German Federal Court of Justice Finds Trademark Infringement in Radiator Grille with Audi-Logo-Shaped Mounting Fixture

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/four-rings-to-rule-them-all-german.html If you picture an Audi, you likely imagine some type of car with four interlocking rings on the radiator grille [a symbol of the merger of the four automobile manufacturers Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer in 1932]. It is thus safe to assume that a radiator grille built for... Continue reading
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Around the IP Blogs

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/around-ip-blogs_19.html Whether you are recovering from the holidays or still enjoying them, the world of IP keeps turning! Here is a round up of some of the news going around the IP blogosphere…. It’s a big world out there… Patents The Kluwer Patent Blog provides coverage of VMI Holland v. Safe-Run... Continue reading
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Monday Miscellany

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/monday-miscellany.html Coco wrote too many papers this summer The IPKat leisurely stalked the IP world all week and found some delicious KatFood for thought. Events Evening with UNION-IP Mr António Campinos, President of the European Patent Office, will be making his first official address to a UK audience on Thursday,... Continue reading
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When a tiger loses its teeth: applying the step-by-step approach on a word mark and a mark containing a device representation thereof

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/when-tiger-loses-its-teeth-applying.html Kat friend Jolena Ang from Singapore reports on an interesting trademark opposition involving both word mark and device mark elements. In Tiger Coatings GMBH & Co. KG v Seng Fong Paints Pte Ltd [2019] SGIPOS 10, the Applicant, Seng Fong Paints Pte Ltd, applied to register the following marks... Continue reading
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Copyright protection granted to Charlotte Tilbury makeup powder case and design

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/makeup-palette-protection-granted-to.html Lookalike products pose a concern for many a famous brand, and many forms of legal action may be brought in efforts to quell this, from trade mark infringement to passing off and, also, copyright infringement. When it comes to makeup palettes, pursuit of a copyright infringement claim may be... Continue reading
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Repurposing patented products: Inking a new test for infringement in Australia?

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/repurposing-patented-products-inking.html Kat friend Tyrone Berger has provided us with a report about the latest judicial treatment in Australia of an implied license in connection with a patent litigation action. For many jurisdictions, the issue of repurposing a patented product is an issue of exhaustion. Not so in Australia, where, as... Continue reading
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The first AI inventor – IPKat searches for the facts behind the hype

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-first-ai-inventor-ipkat-searches.html As has been recently widely reported (BBC, Financial Times and The Times), a number of patent applications have been filed designating a machine learning (ML) algorithm as an inventor. The aim of the applications appears to kickstart a conversation on how patent law could be changed to take account of AI... Continue reading