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18 Aug 2015, 3:40 am
The judges indicated that they would abide by the direction to produce the written decision within six weeks, on which the Kat will report later. [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]
17 Mar 2020, 11:29 am
In this Kat's view, a limitation of the counteraction doctrine to these kinds of cases, where one of the signs refers to iconic persons or concepts, would have made sense. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 1:08 am
Following on from last week's post on the written description requirement in the US (IPKat), this Kat's attention has been drawn to yet another interesting decision from the Court of Appeal of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in the life sciences field. [read post]
8 May 2022, 1:43 am
Kat friend Sarah Neil brings the following cautionary tale when the Registry gets over its trade mark skis on the issue of bad faith. [read post]
24 Jan 2019, 4:05 am
Furthermore, considering that staff expertise may differ, for instance from region to region, this Kat does hope the deterrent that this case provides could be applied with care in the future. [read post]
19 May 2020, 11:42 pm
Kat friend Matej Michalec discusses a decision by EUIPO's Cancellation Division, regarding bad faith in an invalidation action involving Chinese character marks, which merits particular attention. [read post]
14 Aug 2017, 3:28 am
Kat friend Roberto A Jacchia (De Berti Jacchia Franchini Folani) in Milan reports on the decision and what it means for Italian litigants and the interpretation of the IP Enforcement Directive. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 3:15 am
The synthetic skills of this GuestKat unfortunately do not allow to summarize all the lectures by these eminent scholars, but a report of the discussions that were made, mainly in their chronological order, is still possible and maybe can provide some food for thoughts for our Kat readers (with many apologies for any oversimplification). [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 10:03 am
Katfriend Miquel Pequera Poch (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) analyzes the Spanish transposition of the directive - notably its Articles 15 and 17 - for us.Over to Miquel:At last Spain transposes the DSM Directive by Miquel Pequera Poch Kat in ValenciaSpain has finally transposed the DSM Directive (DMSD), by means of a Royal Decree-law (RD-law), which was published in the Official Gazette on the 3rd of November. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 8:44 am
In case there was still any doubt, the test to be applied is the one that the CJEU set forth in Infopaq (an infringement case, before being an originality case) [Kat-anniversary post here]: there is reproduction in part of a work when what has been reproduced is original in the sense that it is its author’s own intellectual creation, the result of free and creative choices and something that displays their personal touch. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 9:35 am
This Kat doesn't think that there is any ground on which to appeal against or set aside the CJEU's decision to use its Article 181 facility either, though he is happy to be put right on this. [read post]
27 May 2014, 3:33 am
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation v Harris [2014] EWHC 1568 is a judgment of Mr Justice Barling (the president of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, when he’s not hearing IP cases), the next chapter in the Newzbin piracy saga.Background – Newzbin and the first ever UK blocking injunctionAnyone with an interest in online copyright infringement and blocking injunctions (one of this Kat’s favourite topics) will remember Newzbin as a service which helped its… [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 12:49 pm
This is now the sixth in the regular series of round-ups of the previous week's Katposts, carefully cultivated for your consumption by former guest Kat and occasional bicycle stunt-man Alberto. [read post]
29 Nov 2013, 5:10 am
Only hours after updating the IPKat on the current state of its work with the UK's Intellectual Property Office on lookalike packaging, the British Brands Group, in the person of John Noble, has jogged this Kat's memory an prompted him to tell readers all about the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which has been busying itself by publishing its own important study on brands and their role in the marketplace. [read post]
30 Sep 2023, 8:04 am
Kat thinking about guns on the interwebs... [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 5:16 am
As another week rolls around, here are some interesting events, writing competitions and IP news to keep you going.December = unapologetically Christmassy Kat picturesEventsIP Inclusive EventsIP Inclusive have several events coming up open to all IP professionals which are free of charge.Tuesday 3 December 2019, 6-7pm: an informal launch meeting and discussion by their new disability support group IP Ability, to be hosted by AA Thornton at their offices at: 10 Old… [read post]
2 Sep 2016, 3:39 am
This aspect of the judgment is actually very interesting and was rather glossed over in the earlier post, and so this Kat would like to revisit the topic to look at this one aspect in a little more detail.The patent EP2264047 (“the 047 patent”) relates to a method of purifying daptomycin by altering the pH to change the CMC - that is not "Case Management Conference" but "Critical Micelle Concentration" - the concentration at which a surfactant (in this… [read post]
16 May 2022, 12:10 am
In the meantime, this Kat recommends watching the lively discussion before the BoA in case T-467/20. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 12:14 am
.* A Kat's 2015 Copyright AwardsLike last year and the year before, Eleonora reviews the copyright year, awarding a number of prizes to the most relevant developments occurred in 2015. [read post]
