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16 Oct 2015, 7:59 am
He's not the only Kat on the programme, though, or even the only blogger, since Katonomist and occasional provocateur Nicola Searle is speaking too. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 1:50 am
After a long road from the Federal Court to the Full Federal Court, the case has finally arrived in its final destination in the High Court of Australia, which handed down its judgment last week; one that this Kat has anticipated with interest.Even though the facts of the case are known to many, the Australian case still merits some exposition. [read post]
15 Oct 2015, 2:34 am
Combine that with the litigious American culture and who knows...Gangsta Kat by PetfulCounterpunch, <who, Merpel notes, unfortunately misspell the acronym>, notes that pro rights holders arguments are binding, whereas those supporting the public domain are not. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 9:47 am
And this guest Kat isn’t happy with it. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 9:20 am
Katfriend, scholar and JIPLP contributor Rosa Maria Ballardini (Assistant Professor of IP Law, Hanken School of Economics) has contacted the Kats with the following request: as a part of a research project (based in Finland) we are looking to find companies that use open hardware 3D online repositories (e.g. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 2:51 am
The contested decision was therefore partially annulled, leaving it for the Board of Appeal to re-examine the arguments on the existence of a risk of an unfair advantage being taken within the meaning of Article 8(5).This Kat thinks the General Court's summary and guidance were good and provide quite a handy checklist both for prospective rights owners who want to weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of Community collective marks and protected geographical indications and for… [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 4:01 pm
Says this Kat, the current law is a dreadful mess and anything that can be done to make it more consistent, and indeed intelligible, is to be welcomed. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 11:42 am
The AmeriKat's view during Sunday evening'sUPC session Sunday late afternoon sessions are generally a killer for attendance as conference participants are either exploring the sites or getting in a quick Kat nap before evening festivities. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 9:04 am
Now that the Kats have your attention, here's another note on a recent case which has, or at any rate should have, a predictable outcome. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 12:22 am
Over the past week or two, this Kat has received a number of inquiries from people wanting to know what a hedge fund is, and who or what a Kyle Bass is. [read post]
11 Oct 2015, 11:32 am
Earlier today this Kat posted a guest item by Katfriend Aaron Wood on the ruling of Mrs Justice Rose in Roederer v J Garcia Carrion S.A. [read post]
11 Oct 2015, 3:43 am
& Others [2015] EWHC 2760 (Ch), a 6 October 2015 decision of Mrs Justice Rose, sitting in the Chancery Division of the High Court, England and Wales, has attracted a lot of attention on account of its subject matter: the sparkling white wines on which British consumers spend a disproportionate amount of their money in the opinion of at least one member of the Kat team who prefers dry red wines that don't go up your nose when you try to drink them. [read post]
9 Oct 2015, 3:05 am
Around Christmas time in 2012, this Kat published a post about the Global Seed Vault in Norway, whose avowed purpose was to preserve a semblance of biodiversity should there be a major world-wide calamity to our food stocks. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 11:51 pm
He's not the only Kat on the programme, though, or even the only blogger. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 11:10 pm
Those guest Kats just keep cropping up again, even after we think we've said goodbye. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 11:56 am
Only a couple of weeks later the same court entertained the same litigants in proceedings noted by this Kat in "Forging a new path: cost caps and contrary behaviour in cut-price IP court", here. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 2:34 am
In particular, the court observed [contrary to a recent Greek ruling] that, although the BestWater case related to a work that was disclosed to the public without the rightholder’s consent, that decision does not state that no work is communicated to the public (either) if the link leads to the public to a website on which the work has been published without the rightholder’s consent Incidentally, in this humble Kat's humble opinion,… [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 2:06 am
This Kat has from time to time complained that cases have reached court which should have been settled long before they got there. [read post]
7 Oct 2015, 1:10 am
This Kat thinks there is a case for saying that the good judge should fire the case back to Luxembourg and ask for some unequivocal clarification, though Merpel is inclined to think he should clarify the decision himself, leaving it for other judges to refer their cases to the CJEU if they disagree with him.Here's a not particularly rigorous survey (naturally, since it's not one of ours, adds Merpel), prompted by Merpel's recent post to the effect that French applicants… [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 9:41 am
Both real and fictional Kats have memories that are admittedly fallible, but Merpel has this vague recollection that EPO's concern for human rights has been demonstrated more vividly by its defiance of them than by their protection. [read post]
