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14 Feb 2013, 3:31 am
IPKat's friend Peter Munkacsi has brought to this Kat's attention the comments that the Max Planck Institute has just made available as regards the "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market" [don't worry, says Merpel: if that was ever possible, the text of the proposal… [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 8:46 pm
While very few comments were posted by readers, this Kat received a number of emails from people who felt that some sort of response was called for. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 12:31 am
Kat friend Dr. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 3:20 am
"On the top of that, this Kat finds odd that the very same EU Commission that would be proposing an obligation upon platforms to "prevent the availability on their services" of infringing works, "including through the use of effective content identification technologies" [see the IPKat breaking scoop here], has being repeatedly stressing the necessity to maintain the safe harbour as it is and also to prevent Member States from adopting general… [read post]
5 Sep 2016, 11:30 pm
The answer on the facts of this case was no - the anonymised data should be disclosed, as Kat friend Eibhlin Vardy (Stephenson Harwood), reports: "Background A large scale randomised clinical trial was conducted by Queen Mary University of London (QM), to assess the effectiveness of four of the main treatments available for those suffering with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS, also known as known as myalgic encephalomyelitis or ME). 640 patients participated in the… [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 5:02 am
This Kat is quite interested in the further discussions on the ‘authorised entity’. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 12:42 am
This Kat, while still junior in his professional path, has a growing interest in luxury brands (Merpel says, just you wait…) and this “saucy” trade mark story on Page Sixkept him amused for the day. [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 7:03 am
"Here's something to chew on", announces one of our readers, a patent attorney on the other side of the English Channel from this Kat, making an observation on a recent decision of a European Patent Office Board of Appeal in Case T 0327/13 of 17.7.2015 Exchangeable continuous casting nozzle. [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]
15 Jun 2016, 5:31 am
It is still not entirely clear to this Kat whether the jurisdictions have been scored for their quality per se, or what unscrupulous businesses can get away with - as the report observes, 'the table is headed by countries that either have no data protection laws in place or laws that are considered to be weak, immature or outdated'. [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 1:27 am
End of year: always a good time to catch upwith those little things that might otherwisepermanently escape a busy Kat's attention ...The IPKat and Merpel always think the end-of-year break is a great time to catch up on recent cases. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 5:18 am
On Friday of last week, this Kat posted a report on, and some thoughts in relation to, the event on Thursday evening concerning Clause 13 of the Intellectual Property Bill. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 3:07 am
Kat friend Chia Ling Koh describes an interesting recent example, Florian Mack v Golden Cala Trading EST [2020] SGIPOS 5, a matter brought before IPOS, the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. [read post]
7 Jun 2014, 1:03 am
The discreet tattoo every IPKat contributor gets upon joining the Kat teamIs there copyright in tattoos? [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 4:22 pm
The "missing" city is London, which will accommodate the court's chemistry and pharma workload -- though it was London that hosted the same organisers' International Patent Forum this March (on which see "A touch of the Waldorfs", here).Fast foodHaving founded MIP back in the early 1990s and then having edited it for some years, this Kat is always happy to see what it's up to, and he's pleased to see that quite a few of his friends, and… [read post]
6 Jan 2020, 5:33 am
The defendant raised the defences of freedom of artistic expression, as well as parody, both of which were however rejected by the court.Eleonora also provided us with A Kat's 2019 Copyright Awards, which included the most important copyright decision, copyright person of the year, and the most important policy issue for 2020 (no spoilers here - go read it for yourself!) [read post]
17 Aug 2022, 7:57 am
Recently, this Kat reported on Beyoncé’s decision to remove a sample from her song, after Kelis took to social media to complain, even though the rights had been cleared and there was no copyright infringement. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 4:00 pm
Over on the 1709 Blog, John Enser tells readers all about a new venture the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): it's a website called Copyright Aware [a much less threatening title than Copyright Beware, which this Kat suspects the BBC must have thought about before opting for the name they now use]. [read post]
2 Oct 2015, 6:16 am
This Kat sometimes wonders whether every big copyright dispute these days seems to have a major political or philosophical subtext to it -- an example of which can be found below. [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 12:00 am
This Kat is delighted to review The Law of Artificial Intelligence , edited by Matt Hervey, Head of Artificial Intelligence at Gowling WLG (UK) LLP, and Matthew Lavy, 4 Pump Court, an expert on disputes involving technology. [read post]
