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4 Feb 2015, 2:59 pm
Every so often this Kat is delighted to hear from his imaginative and mercurial friend Paul J. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 1:57 pm
For what happens when public sentiment sours on a grand initiative, Kat readers need only consider the recent Greek elections. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 3:40 am
This Kat is a little surprised that there is so little support for the proposition that ethnic and religious groups would benefit from such events. [read post]
4 Feb 2015, 2:41 am
This Kat is delighted to learn that the UK Intellectual Property Office is currently recruiting for a newly-pressed new press person. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 2:59 pm
This book is the ninth in the series of Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property, of which this Kat is Series Editor. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 9:22 am
This Kat is pleased that Brazil is taking steps to get its act together, though he has a feeling that suing the BPTO might sometimes have the effect of slowing the organisation down, at any rate if it expends examiners' time and effort in defending and participating in litigation. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 2:20 am
Thankfully our own Alberto Bellan has once again come to rescue readers with his 31st consecutive "Never Too Late" round-up of Kat-items. [read post]
1 Feb 2015, 4:36 pm
Former guest Kat Marie-Andrée Weiss (discusses this topic on the 1709 Blog. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 5:27 pm
The earlier posts can be found here (introductory), here (ethics), here (case law) and here (strategies for protecting biotech inventions).This post is focused on financing and protecting research into new therapies, which is what this Kat knows most about. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 7:29 am
It reasoned that a) the InfoSoc Directive leaves intact and does not affect the Software Directive which constitutes a 'lex specialis' and b) the Software Directive needs to be interpreted in light of the "different intention expressed by the European Union legislature in the specific context of that directive".Leaving aside this Kat's personal views on the highly questionable analysis that permeates the UsedSoft ruling, this would seem to suggest that the… [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 3:35 am
No wonder the public's views seem so confusing.Okay Kat, but what about IP? [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 10:31 am
This Kat was delighted to receive from Katfriend Rutger M. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 2:31 am
While it is important to take account of considerations of procedural economy and of not extending a ruling beyond points on which the parties are prepared to argue, it seems immediately apparent to this Kat that there is a more important reason for answering the Antwerp court's broad questions quite narrowly. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 3:32 pm
Judging by the fact that there have been a fairly large major international patent events over the past couple of years, most of which have been well attended, this Kat suspects that both those who organise these events and those who attend them feel much the same way as he does.On a personal level, this Kat notes with some pleasure that Managing Intellectual Property magazine's International Patent Forum 2015 will soon be with us, running on 10 and 11 March. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 8:49 am
You can of course pay for the official court recording to be transcribed, assuming that there were no faults in the recording process [This Kat can see no good reason for banning the use of recording instruments in the digital age, in which the art of short-hand writing is all but obsolete and grown-up adults can be trusted not to abuse the facility].The problem comes when there have been offers and it is not a simple matter of assessing this costs incurred by the winning party. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 3:35 am
This Kat wonders whether, with annual membership dues at only £40 [that's roughly what it costs to watch Cats at the London Palladium], any self-respecting Kat-in-the-making can afford not to be a part of this exciting venture.Kicking off the events this year is a social, giving the opportunity to mix with fellow members on 12 February -- to which it is not too late to sign up. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 7:42 pm
It seems to this Kat that, unless Mr Forsgren is able to provide additional material not referred to in the present decision, the referring court will decide against the granting of an SPC.This Kat notes that the judgment does not require the marketing authorisation to ‘disclose’ the independent ‘actions’ required for a substance to be considered an active ingredient, but only that they must be ‘covered’ by the therapeutic indications the… [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 3:22 am
The Kats are delighted to receive this legal analysis of the situation from Catarina Holtz, a former member of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 4:03 am
Also, he presents C5's 7th Forum, "Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation", which IPKat readers may attend with a Kat-reduction on the ticket.* Strategies for patenting biotech inventions: broad claims, changing contributions and data that didn’t make it into the specificationThis is the fourth post in series of Suleman’s Katguide on biotech inventions [the earlier posts can be found here (introductory), here (ethics) and here (case… [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 2:15 am
Over on Class 46, former Kat Mark Schweizer tells us how domain name renewal snatching can constitute unfair competition, while another of our old colleagues, Laetitia Lagarde, regales readers with a feline fracas when Spanish word mark CLEAN CAT was able to ward off the threat of a Community trade mark application for a figurative mark containing the words CAT & CLEAN.Patent Cooperation Treaty: new guide for applicants. [read post]
