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14 Sep 2020, 12:00 am
If this story sound familiar to Kat readers, it is because similar facts were featured in a landmark CJEU decision of 2011, C-429/08 "Premier League v. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 1:02 am
Kat friend Mervyn Cheong discusses a recent decision from Singapore that considered the interesting legal question of the relationship between cybersquatting and contract enforceability. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 1:15 am
This Kat has constitutionality concernsMissing The IPKat's posts as they come in doesn't mean missing out: catch up on last week's news and views in this edition of Never Too Late.CopyrightIn a guest post, KatFriend Hanne Kirk (Gorrissen Federspiel) considered the application of the CJEU's Cofemel decision by Denmark's Supreme Court and whether a certain style of black rubber boots with red laces would merit copyright protection.Chijioke Okorie, the… [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]
7 May 2015, 10:29 am
Yet, regrettably in this Kat's opinion, the Strategy does not tackle the issue of digital exhaustion at all];(2) Creating the right conditions for digital networks and services to flourish: this requires high-speed, secure and trustworthy infrastructures and content services, supported by the right regulatory conditions for innovation, investment, fair competition and a level playing field;(3) Maximising the growth potential of our European digital economy: this requires… [read post]
28 Oct 2016, 4:32 am
This Kat, as a young lawyer in the 1980’s practicing in the State of Ohio (where US presidents are elected, when not watching Lebron James play basketball), remembers the principal issues connected with non-compete clauses, at least under Ohio state law: the scope of the restrictions, based on activity, territory, and duration; the ability to apply the “blue pencil” test, which meant that part of the clause could be modified to satisfy restraint of trade concerns without… [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 7:04 am
Pair enough monkeys with typewriters and you get Shakespeare.Pair one Kat with a typewriter and you getinstructions to an assistant to purchasecopies of Shakespeare...Last week, a group of around 80 of the world’s best known consumer brands wrote to the President of the European Commission calling for action in tackling counterfeiters. [read post]
29 May 2020, 1:13 pm
This Kat is delighted to review The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age by Cheryl Foong (Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Australia).This book suggests that copyright has an underserved function – dissemination. [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]
11 Nov 2018, 10:30 am
Even when it rains kats and dogs, IPKat wastes no time hibernating. [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]
9 Oct 2013, 2:21 pm
Like all felines, this Kat is usually wary of expressing her actual opinions, but this time she would feel much better if the Court said that in general hyperlinking is something to be left outwith the scope of copyright protection. [read post]
17 May 2017, 1:03 am
This Kat asked one of his colleagues to delve more deeply into Kiefer's patenting activity, and he produced the following list.US Design – 723125 – KickboardUS Design – 970865 – TrolleyUS Design – 464433 - Spine boardUS Design - 480298 – Pipe clampUS Patent 6659104 – Cervical spine restraint and spine board equipped with the sameUS Patent 3219007 (from 1965) – Two-in-one tow handlesUS Patent 3607103 (from 1971) – Chemical dispenser… [read post]
8 May 2014, 4:17 am
Salame Felino: no cats were harmedin the production of this product‘Salame Felino’ is the name a pure pork salami sausage; its name comes from the town of Felino [Google Translate confirms that this word is the Italian for "feline" = "of or pertaining to Kats"], a conurbation located in the province of Parma. [read post]
12 Jun 2015, 2:47 am
This Kat has recently come across an intriguing white paper, released by Mark Zuckerberg last year, in which a provocative question is posed: "Is connectivity a human right? [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]
19 Sep 2014, 6:35 pm
Whatever it was, the AmeriKat decided that further Kat posts and some client meetings required her attention (as well as a rare relaxing bath before the Gala Dinner). [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]
31 May 2020, 3:37 pm
Broadly speaking, Merck Global won at first instance and on appeal (reported by the Kat here and here, respectively), but various issues were remitted to the High Court for further consideration (because the first instance judgment did not contain sufficiently detailed findings in relation to some of the points in dispute).Five points were remitted, but three stand out.1. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 7:41 am
This is the latest decision in the Unwired Planet cases (see previous Kat reports here) and the first UK judgment to really get to grips with the issue of FRAND. [read post]
