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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/save-date-ipkat-is-turning-20-in-2023.html Time flies when you are having fun, they say … That must be even truer when the fun is IP-related. In 2023, in fact, our beloved blog The IPKat will leave its teen years behind and turn … 20! As our readers know, The IPKat was co-founded by Jeremy... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/adam-williams-appointed-as-ceo-of-uk-ipo.html The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has announced that Adam Williams has been appointed Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the IPO. The announcement reported the following: Adam WilliamsImage: UK IPO Adam joined the Intellectual Property Office in 2009 and took up the role of Director of Business and International... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-ip-for-start-ups.html This is a review of Intellectual Property Strategies for Start-ups: A Practical Guide, edited by Stefan Golkowsky, partner, PFENNING Patent Attorneys and Lawyers, Berlin, Germany. Leif Zierz describes in the foreword, that “this book illustrates how IP protection – especially in the early stages of a business – helps... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/africa-ip-highlights-2022-1-copyright.html It’s December and time for …drumroll… The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-post-brexit-trade-mark-order.html Post-Brexit, evidence of use and acquired distinctiveness of a trade mark may be one of the areas within trade mark law that cause headaches for practitioners. The position of the EUIPO, when it comes to acquired distinctiveness through use in the UK for the purposes of an invalidation action... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-does-election-rhyme-with.html Can you use someone’s song without their permission, moreover in the context of a political event? The answer seems to be a straightforward one. Yet, many politicians continue behaving like that. Our Katfriends at Gorrissen Federspiel in Copenhagen – Hanne Kirk, Jakob Plesner Mathiasen and Paul Sina – comment.... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/does-eu-law-say-anything-regarding.html Joint ownership of IP rights is one of the areas that, in practice, may generate some of the biggest headaches, in particular when it comes to determining what each and every joint owner can do independently of the other owner(s). It is also an area in which historically different... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-conference-report-design.html A few weeks ago, the UNION-IP Designs Commission in association with the UNION-IP Netherlands national group – “Design & Copyright Law: siblings or rival?” held another roundtable session (Thursday Thingies), the topic of which related to the overlaps between copyright and design law (details of the event to be... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/how-gaslighting-became-2022-dictionary.html If you used the word “gaslighting” recently, you are not alone. Merriam-Webster, the dictionary people, recently selected it as the 2022 “word of the year”. [Merpel grouses—”you are such a nerd”, with the rest of the world following the World Cup]. Whatever, the story of how the word went... Continue reading
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-mocambique-principle-and.html Whilst a bit different from PatKat’s stable Katfood of EPO case law, the recent decision from the Court of Appeal in GW Pharma v Otsuka ([2022] EWCA Civ 1462) is nonetheless food for thought. The decision considered whether the UK courts are able to hear a dispute over whether royalties are due under a... Continue reading
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