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21 Dec 2015, 6:25 am
In this Kat's opinion, the response of the CJEU will be in the affirmative: the case of unlawful content is a scenario in which authorisation to the initial communication was not even provided. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 3:00 am
This Kat remembers the good old days when all you had was a bar of soap (and licked road clean before breakfast). [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 1:31 am
* Surprise agreement on trade secrets – but still surprisingly secretiveAnother IP-Christmas present from Brussels is the “provisional agreement” on the proposed EU Trade Secrets Directive, which Kat friend Mark Ridgway (Allen & Overy) comments for us. [read post]
20 Dec 2015, 2:13 am
To the frustration of government, opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong finally managed to push back discussion of the proposed Copyright (Amendment) 2014 bill until next year.Ok Kat fans: Grumpy Cat Limited, the company behind the ever-angry feline, filed a lawsuit against coffee company Grenade Beverage LLC for copyright and trademark infringement as well as trademark dilution, cybersquatting, breach of contract, and accounting. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 2:54 am
INPI, to this Kat’s initial surprise, rejected the “Je suis Charlie” applications as lacking distinctiveness. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 6:38 am
" A sarcastic kat-pat to the man who bought possbily the most expensive album ever made.OHIM has had a busy week. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 11:55 am
The AmeriKat stalkingfurther news of trade secrets reformfrom her collective of Kat friends As Birgit Clark has already reported, yesterday saw sudden movement in a number of IP-related, EU-level initiatives, including a “provisional agreement” on the proposed EU trade secrets directive. [read post]
15 Dec 2015, 8:05 am
The IPKat has learned from James Thomson (whose full title is "Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Media Relations Intellectual Property Office" and definitely deserves a grateful Kat pat!) [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 10:43 pm
The Court, however, found the relevant info submitted as not making it possible to come to such conclusion [so this Kat understands that someone else may in the future be luckier in this regard] and added that “the distinctive value of those signs may be explained less by their positioning on the product than by the intensive use which has in fact been made of them on the market”.Addressing K-Swiss's arguments regarding its relevant case law, the Court held that in the… [read post]
12 Dec 2015, 12:04 pm
This Kat begins by recalling once again Jeremy Phillip’s valedictory admonition about the inability of the media to understand IP. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 6:16 am
In this Kat's opinion, the response of the CJEU will be in the affirmative: the case of unlawful content is a scenario in which authorisation to the initial communication was not even provided. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 4:57 am
This is an interesting aspect which serves to show how national economies and their strategies are inter-connected with national champion brands (some Kats will surely recall the Siemens bribery scandal and the impact it had on “Made in Germany” branding). [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 12:00 pm
The IPKat has taken a look at the series and finds them worthy of attention for Kat readers interested in this most timely subject. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 5:45 am
It appears to this Kat that using and depleting a toner cartridge similarly realizes its commercial value. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 8:45 am
Kobalt Kats with long talesamdala6Could the 1% break free? [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 3:51 am
Cross-border portability, a new EU right for consumers, is expected to be a reality in 2017, the same year as the end of roaming charges in the EU".This Kat has just had a quick glance at the proposed regulation and will get back with a more thorough analysis soon. [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 12:23 am
Kat friend Aaron Wood has provided an edifying summary of a recent case from the UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court, Henry Hadaway Organisation v Pickwick Group Limited and Ors [2015] EWHC 3407 (IPEC), concerning the vexing question that copyright practitioners know all too well: Who is the owner of the copyright in a recording where one party finances and the other is the creative/organiser? [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 2:02 am
This Kat has had the opportunity to see a draft of the latter, and really looks forward to seeing whether the version to be presented tomorrow is the same ... [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 5:08 am
Individual non-geographical components of that term may be used, even jointly and also in translation, throughout the Community, provided the principles and rules applicable in the Community’s legal order are respected.The defendant argued that "aceto balsamico" and "balsamico" were used as abbreviations for "Aceto Balsamico di Modena", and their use had to comply with the regulation for the PGI "Aceto Balsamico di Modena".In this Kat's… [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 1:42 am
A seven-year imposition of silence is an unusually cruel way of gagging a kat who has something important to say for herself.Similarly, while Merpel was granted her own email address several years ago, she has long suspected Jeremy (and others) of snooping in her mailbox, looking for inspiration for their posts. [read post]
