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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/thursday-thingies_22.html What Kat food does The IPKat serve you this week? Here it comes… This Kat is a food lover. Events Conference ‘Three Decades @ The Crossroads of IP, ICT and Law’ The KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) will hold a conference, ‘Three Decades @ The... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/08/uspto-amends-rules-requirement-of-us.html Are foreign applications for US trade marks under increasing scrutiny? A recent amendment to US trade mark application procedure seems to point to “Yes”: “The United States Patent and Trademark Office amends the Rules of Practice in Trademark Cases, the Rules of Practice in Filings Pursuant to the Protocol Relating... Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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