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21 Oct 2017, 9:55 am
"The sixth panel session at AIPPI’s Sydney Congress, moderated by my co-Guest Kat Warwick Rothnie, focused on issues for IP law raised by “Big Data”—a term arguably dating from as early as 1989.The question for debate was whether existing IP rights sufficiently protect the interests of those in industry who create and use Big Data, but discussion moved quickly into the related topics of AI and the Internet of Things.The session opened with a… [read post]
8 Nov 2013, 3:51 am
This Kat is aware that the utilitarian nature of trade secrets and computer software means that the legal protection of such rights does not share an identical focus with the outputs of scientific research. [read post]
23 Nov 2017, 12:13 am
Patents and medicine.Katfriend Dr Danny Friedmann (IP Dragon) tells IPKat readers what happened.Here’s what Danny writes:“This Hong Kong Kat witnessed Sir Robin Jacob (Sir Hugh Laddie Chair of Intellectual Property Law) bringing some of Jeremy Bentham’s spirit from UCL to the University of Hong Kong. [read post]
15 Mar 2020, 2:32 am
On a sunny Sunday morning in South Africa, this Kat brings you the latest news on all IP must-do's! [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 12:15 pm
In particular, he provided an overview of the Nestlé Kit Kat bar, Yoshida knife handle, Rubik’s cube, Trip Trapp chair and London Taxi Corp cases, which involved either the registrability exclusion of a shape resulting from the nature of the goods, the necessity of obtaining a technical result or adding value to the product.Simon considered the particular challenges in registering a 3D trade mark by having to show by, virtue of acquired distinctiveness, that a shape fulfils the… [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 2:00 am
(LastOne, an Italian kat by Arianna Antonelli) The case On 23 December 2022, the Italian Supreme Court issued decision no. 37697 and dismissed the appeal against the refusal by the Italian Patent and Trademark Office (UIBM) to register the phrase “YOUR SKIN DESERVES TO BE TREATED WELL” as a trade mark for goods and services in classes 3 (cosmetics and cleaning preparations), 5 (sanitary preparations for personal hygiene, other than toiletries, dietary supplements, intended… [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 11:20 am
Kat IPTVNo retransmissionIn the second part of the ruling, which concerned the must-carry channels (and which thus did not give rise to infringement claim), the Court disagreed with Kopiosto and held that Telia's transmission of broadcasts constituted original transmissions. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 5:08 am
" Peppers resist insect, breeders resist patent which includes the textThis Kat has received information concerning the publication in a national Dutch newspaper of a double page item calling for crowd-funding of opposition proceedings against a European patent. [read post]
19 Oct 2020, 4:15 am
Comments This Kat is not surprised by the ruling of the Hague District Court. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 9:28 am
Fashion cat’s tail might bristle at those parodies It has come to this Kat’s attention that streetwear designers have been highly creative in marketing “"parody garments" of high-fashion brands. [read post]
10 Feb 2015, 10:15 am
After this Kat posted this piece on next month's forthcoming Nordic IPR Forum, which is offering all readers of this weblog a 10% reduction on its its registration fees, the organisers sent him a link to a short (15 page) e-book,"The Next Chapter of Nordic IPR", the theme of which runs thus:"The Nordic countries have a strong history in research and innovation in the IP sphere, this alongside well-developed traditional and digital infrastructure, places the region… [read post]
22 May 2013, 11:28 pm
One of the rural states main industries is craft cheese and dairy products (must visit, notes the IP Kat). [read post]
9 Nov 2017, 10:30 pm
Kat friend Shahid Nabi from Linkilaw has offered his thoughts on the affordability of drugs and the patent system, looking particularly at South Africa. [read post]
27 Nov 2020, 1:05 am
Kat friend Chia Ling Koh describes a recent case, Tuitiongenius Pte Ltd v Toh Yew Keat and anor [2020] SGCA 103, a decision of the Singapore Court of Appeal. [read post]
5 Aug 2014, 10:08 am
At a certain risk of generalization, this Kat wonders whether the lean approach, if it becomes the norm for a critical mass of knowledge workers, may dampen the conditions by which innovation and invention take place. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 5:43 am
Wheeltrim, a reference on the interpretation of the Italian spare parts exception (bizarrely still not available in English, but for example in Estonian), she hinted that rather sooner than later there might be a referral from Italy on the question whether rims were "must match" parts at all - a question answered in the negative by most Member States that know a spare parts exception, but one for which divergent case law exists in Italy.All in all a very informative day; if anything, it… [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 8:30 am
There seem to be a lot of Amazons around and, since time is pressing, this Kat will content himself with this short post based on the Curia press release in the hope that, if there are any more subtle legal issues at stake, one of his feline colleagues who is better attuned to copyright will elaborate upon it. [read post]
27 Jan 2014, 10:08 am
Wait and Zee", this Kat summarised the facts of Zee Entertainment v Zeebox as follows. [read post]
13 Oct 2017, 3:14 am
For this reason, and because this year's Congress program is too extensive and interesting to cover all single-highhandedly, the AmeriKat is relying on local Australian guest Kats to help update readers on what is happening in Sydney. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 8:31 am
Publishers II Speaking of "limited neighbouring right[s] to stop unlicensed use of snippets", IPKat readers will remember that last year Germany introduced a piece of legislation known as Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverlege (LSR) that created a neighbouring right over news content [this Kat is not a great fan of this sort of initiatives, as explained here]. [read post]
