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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/happy-30th-birthday-eu-plant-variety.html The EU Regulation on Community plant variety rights is celebrating its 30th birthday today! This is a significant milestone for the Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994, also known as the “Basic Regulation,” which established the unitary intellectual property right for plant varieties. An important birthday A Kat... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/guest-post-fanatics-about-trade-mark.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Kimberley Evans (Pearce IP) regarding a recent Australian decision concerning inter alia the honest concurrent use and own name defences under Australian trade mark law. Here’s what Kimberley writes: Fanatics about trade mark infringement, cancellation... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/upckat-upc-court-of-appeals-pi-ruling.html As part of our UPCKat reporting on the latest UPC developments, the IPKat continues its series of reports that analyze the development of preliminary injunction case law from the UPC. With our guest UPCKat team in the form of guest UPCKats Agathe Michel-de Cazotte, Hiske Roos and Laura Mikkelsen and members from the team at Carpmaels we... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/book-review-enforcing-intellectual.html What better way to start the summer than by reading an intellectual property book. This time, this Kat had the opportunity to review Jane Lambert’s book “Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights: A Concise Guide for Businesses, Innovative and Creative Individuals”, published earlier this year in its latest edition. Structure of... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/guest-post-germany-house-of-birkenstock.html Hopefully not standing on sweaty 🤢 Birkenstocks The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Henning Hartwig (Bardehle Pagenberg) on the ‘House of Birkenstock’ and the various IP rights they tried over time, including trade dress law, design law, and copyright law, with... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_23.html Join this new InternKat on her first post to catch up on what you might have missed! Tuesday Tiddlywinks Eleonora Rosati reported on various upcoming events and conferences in Bergen, Santiago de Chile, and London. Also, don’t forget to check the news she reported if you are a copyright... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/harmonized-technical-standards-under-eu.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Sunimal Mendis (Tilburg University) and Olia Kanevskaia (Utrecht University) on the judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C-588/21 P Public.Resource.Org, concerning copyright protection of technical standards and access to public... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/is-car-key-housing-component-part-of-car.html The repair clause in Art. 110(1) Community Design Regulation (‘CDR’) provides that the protection as a Community design shall not exist for a design which constitutes a component part of a complex product for the purpose of the repair of that complex product so as to restore its original... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/guest-post-basmati-trade-mark-refused.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Kimberley Evans (Pearce IP) regarding another instalment, this time in New Zealand, of the long-running BASMATI IP saga. Here’s what Kimberley writes: BASMATI trade mark refused registration in New Zealand by Kimberley Evans Basmati rice is a... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/07/upc-takes-strong-stance-on-therapeutic.html The Central Division of the UPC has issued its first revocation order (Sanofi v Amgen, UPC_CFI_1/202). The decision is not just remarkable for being the first decision of its kind. The UPC Central Division also takes a strong stance on the patentability of therapeutic antibody inventions in Europe. The Central... Continue reading
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