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29 Dec 2014, 2:16 am
It's now exactly half a year since the IPKat instituted its weekly "Never too late" posts, kindly compiled by Katfriend Alberto Bellan in order to assist readers who were offline or on holiday during the previous week by providing a short note on each of this weblog's substantive blogposts together with a link, to save readers the toil of reading all the way through a large number of blogposts. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 3:10 am
 Meanwhile, for those readers who may have missed something last week, here's the 37th weekly "Never Too Late" feature, provided by our ever-caring and much-appreciated friend Alberto Bellan. [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 3:33 pm
Here, thanks again to the efforts of our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan, are the summaries of last week's Katposts which you might not have had a chance to read. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 4:05 am
Don’t worry, because our good friend Alberto Bellan is back with his 20th round-up of all the Kat-items that were posted while you were away.* "Desperately seeking the Big Picture": live and on stream ...Last week IPKat’s blogmeister Jeremy delivered the first episode of this year's Francis Gurry Lecture on Intellectual Property -- the sixth in the series -- under the title ""IP in Transition: desperately seeking the Big Picture". [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 7:13 am
 Almost all of these updates have been compiled and crafted by our good friend and dedicated colleague Alberto Bellan, to whom the IPKat and Merpel raise their paws in a respectful and grateful salute.Don't forget: there's also a mini-summary at the bottom of the post that lists the features carried by this weblog over the previous month.Last week's substantive Katposts look like this:* Swiss claims: a Kat reflects on the Warner-Lambert v Actavis appealAfter… [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 3:56 am
This week we celebrate the 43rd weekly listing of the previous week's Katposts, once again cunningly contrived and collated by our friend and ally Alberto Bellan. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 12:14 am
Do not worry because – as usual and even at this time of the year – our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back with his #NeverTooLate feature, now on its 78th edition.So, this is what happened on this very blog last week:* The Zero-Sum ClaimNicola’s post on lookalike products prompted debate and a British Brands Group’s response. [read post]
3 Aug 2014, 9:00 am
This is what he writes:The Proposal for a Directive on Trade Secrets: the Max Planck Institute (MPI) comments Having published a first opinion on a proposed Directive on the Protection of Trade Secrets on 12 May (only available in German, here) on 3 June, the Max Planck Institute has now made its comments available on the latest version of the proposal (on which see Alberto Bellan's post here). [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 12:13 am by Eleonora Rosati
VantablackA few months ago our friend Alberto Bellan at the IPKat discussed the very question whether it is possible to own a colour, especially when this is Vantablack, ie the "blackest black ever existed".Today The 1709 Blog is delighted to host a guest contribution by Divya Mirlay (Christ College, Bangalore) on the specific copyright implications surrounding Vantablack.Here's what Divya writes:"Oscar Wilde in his inimitable fashion once said,… [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 1:33 pm
Alberto Bellan discusses the final judgment delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union which invalidated the registration for a three-dimensional sign depicting a Rubik’s cube as being an infringement of Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of the Trade Marks Regulation , i.e. a sign which consists of the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result and consequently, quashes the General Court decision of 25 November 2014, Case T-450/09 Simba Toys v OHIM. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 1:31 am
As usual, nothing to worry about because our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back with the 77thedition of his Never Too Late feature.This is what happened on this very blog last week:* General Court rejects 5-stripes shoe markNikos reports on a General Court’s decision of 4 December 2015 in case T-3/15, addressing the distinctive character of a position mark made of 5 stripes on a shoe.* "All due care" when not responsible for renewalsDavid pens… [read post]
28 Sep 2014, 4:00 pm
Katfriend Alberto Bellan, making his blogging debut for the 1709 Blog team, investigates the constitutionality of blocking injunctions to stop online copyright infringement in Italy, while veteran commentator Ben Challis touches on a surprising subject for rampant copyright infringement: insect photography [Merpel wishes to clarify, after all the fuss about portrait photographs taken by black-crested macaques, that "insect photography" refers to photography of insects,… [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 5:13 am
Do not despair, because our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back as usual with his Never Too Late feature, now on its 66th edition.So here's what happened last week:* Compensation or punishment: A lot of questions about Article 13 Enforcement Directive"Punitive damages" is one of those topics that sharply divide the community of European lawyers. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 3:34 am
Still excited after flying from Milan to London just to attend the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice [#jiplp10 was the relevant hashtag, and our beloved Jeremy live-blogged the event here], our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is nonetheless back with his 74th edition of his invariably helpful Never Too Late feature, summarising the content of last week's Katposts.Wondering if you missed anything? [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 4:08 pm
Back in the saddle after too long enjoying himself, Katfriend Alberto Bellan has produced the following summaries of last week's substantive Katposts. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 4:01 pm
With regular updater Alberto Bellan remains out of action on account of the continuation of his well-earned holiday, this week's round-up of the previous week's substantive Katposts comes again from IPKat blogmeister Jeremy. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 1:31 am
Don’t worry because - as usual - our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back with his Never Too Late feature, now on its 82nd edition.Here’s what happened on this very blog last week:* Believe me - legal services, credence goods and the CMAAs the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a study "into legal services in England and Wales to see if they are working well for consumers and small businesses," Nicola the Katonomist… [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 1:47 am
 If you were away last week, or too busy working to check us out, this is what you missed (courtesy of Jeremy together with Alberto Bellan): Star Wars? [read post]
3 May 2015, 10:33 pm
 Anyway, with his usual economy of words, charm and panache, our good friend Alberto Bellan has been digging through last week's substantive Katposts and has summarised them for you in case you may have missed (or avoided) them:* Why things are as they are in patent law: forgotten principles and histories, and the role of complexitySuleman’s post ‘Subject Matter Relationships: the need for strictness, complexity and fuzziness’… [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 12:32 pm
Here, thanks to our wonderful friend and colleague Alberto Bellan, is the 68th weekly round-up of the previous week's substantive blogposts. [read post]