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3 Apr 2016, 9:24 am
Kat friend Kim Poh NG, a partner at Christopher & Lee Ong, provides this timely guest post about a recent decision of the Federal Court of Malaysia addressing geographical indications, Swiss chocolate, and not-at-all-Swiss chocolate pretending to be Swiss in Malaysia. [read post]
1 Apr 2016, 7:02 am
If any Kat readers can shed some light on this, please do. [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 3:00 am
From Kat David, we have a look at a design book:The first edition of David Stone's European Design Law: A Practitioner's Guide quickly became an indispensable reference work for this Kat. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 1:02 pm
Throughout the sitting the IPKat could not stop smiling at the achievements of the entire IPKat team and its readers over the past 13 years....A big, fuzzy Kat hug from all of us on the IPKat team! [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 12:40 pm
The client alert notes that the modified guidelines were published despite the fact that the appeal filed by Qualcomm against this order is still on appeal.PATENTSVIEW PROJECT--For those Kat readers who are interested in patent data, fellow Kat Nicola has passed on a communication received from Alan Marco, Chief Economist of the US Patent and Trademark Office, who has issued the following announcement about the PatentsView project. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 12:30 pm
Having been sent for review the second edition of "Trade Marks Law", by Glen Gibbons (ISBN: 978-1-905536-80-1), this being a book on trade mark law written from an Irish viewpoint, this Kat was delighted to find a willing reviewer in his colleague Shane Smyth, himself a renowned authority on the subject. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 4:59 am
What triggered this Kat’s interest was a commentary by Justin Fox on Bloomberg radio. [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 4:06 am
In reaching this view, this Kat does not rely on the reasoning of the CJEU decision in Case C-403/08 FAPL v QC Leisure [2011]. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:24 am
This is the so called freedom of panorama, that over the course of the past year has passed from being a perfectly fairly unknown/neglected area of copyright to being a VERY big deal [here; here for a possibly unduly skeptical Kat-take on the issue], up to the point that the European Parliament EVEN voted against any related restriction [here]. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 7:17 am
The AmeriKat's professional life, be it on the Kat or sat at her desk litigating her hours away, involves a huge amount of coordination, support and opposition with lawyers from all over the world. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:13 am
Somehow, though, the uptake on ADR remains modest.Against this backdrop, this Kat was intrigued by an announcement this week from the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), about the upcoming launch on April 1, 2016, of its Mediation Promotion Scheme. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 2:11 pm
At paras 88 ff Arnold J discusses how, while there has been a great deal of academic commentary on the three-step test, there has been very little judicial consideration of it [yet, the test seems addressed at national legislatures and courts alike, as Arnold J and this Kat argued in this recent article].The learned judge deemed it inappropriate to engage in detailed consideration of the requirements of the three-step test. [read post]
20 Mar 2016, 5:05 pm
The biggest international media law story of the week is the award of damages of US$115 million to the retired professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in his claim against gossip news website Gawker. [read post]
19 Mar 2016, 3:00 am
Elsevier, one of the big five, is pursuing legal action against Sci-Hub for illegally distributing their copyrighted works (Elbakyan's response here, case covered here by Kat Emma.) [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 3:48 am
Like most people, this Kat has always wanted to be in the movies. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 11:58 am
(This Guest Kat is grateful for Professor Sandeen's comments on this subject.) [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 7:51 am
Kat readers may have seen the video of a drone flying through New Year’s Eve fireworks display, capturing spectacular footage. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 3:53 am
When this Kat first reported on this reference, she noted that Recital 18 nonetheless clarifies that “information society services … in so far as they represent an economic activity, extend to services which are not remunerated by those who receive them”. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 3:23 am
Guest Kat Mike Mireles reported on partent trolls in terms of myth and metaphor. [read post]
13 Mar 2016, 4:24 am
This Kat would like to explore the patent troll from a different angle. [read post]
