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27 Oct 2021, 12:47 am
Kat friend Hans Eriksson discusses an interesting decision (only available in Swedish) concerning copyright protection and originality, namely whether the sequence of twenty words in an instruction manual may be regarded as being enough for copyright to arise.Here's what Hans writes:The author was recently reminded of the opening lines of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune: “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 2:49 pm
Fortunately, for those of us justifiably distracted by seasonal festivities, Kat friend and trade secrets guru Mark Ridgway (Allen & Overy) returns with the following summary:“As previously reported, following a rapid series of “trilogue” meetings on the EU Trade Secrets Directive late last year, a "provisional" agreement was reached between representatives of the European Parliament and EU Council on 15 December. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 9:30 pm
And one of the things this Kat is keeping 3 of the 5 senses, alert for is: South Africa’s National Council of Provinces passed the Copyright Amendment Bill and sent it to the National Assembly for adoption. [read post]
23 Sep 2019, 2:54 am
A magic wand A creative question was put to the panellists by the Kat’s very own Annsley Merelle Ward: what would they change if they had a magic wand? [read post]
14 Jul 2022, 10:22 am
The digital Kat [read post]
10 May 2018, 11:12 pm
Kat friend Arthur Yap from JurisAsia provides an instructive summary of how the Singapore Court of Appeal has charted its own direction on the doctrine of equivalents in light of the decision by the UK Supreme Court in the widely discussed Eli Lilly v. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 1:20 am
A week and a half ago, this Kat spotted a couple of new intellectual property books that you might want to snuggle up with on a cold dark December night in front of the blazing log fire in your hearth. [read post]
26 Jul 2020, 1:36 am
Kat friend Denise Loh describes for us how all of this played out in a recent decision by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore involving an opposition filed by Rolex. [read post]
14 Dec 2014, 7:16 am
Here's a guest post, brought to you courtesy of fellow blogger, tweeter and IP enthusiast Thomas Dubuisson (right), for which this Kat is particularly grateful since -- while he has mastered the concept of the API, he blushingly confesses that he had never previously spotted the term "declaring code". [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 1:00 am
What do Kat readers think - will transmission/retransmission disputes rear up in the era of simultaneous internet television transmission? [read post]
17 Mar 2020, 11:22 pm
Kat friend Vivien Teo discusses a recent judgment in Singapore in which the claim was vigorously pursued, but ultimately rejected by the Hearing Officer. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 2:35 am
This Kat is a little disappointed that the judgment refers to the judge falling into error with no apparent acknowledgement that the source of the error is in fact the lack of a clear test being laid down in the earlier Court of Appeal judgment. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 2:08 am
Just in case there was any doubt in readers' minds, here are the reasons why this Kat believes that this claim is nonsense and will likely – or at least, should - be dismissed as such. [read post]
19 Feb 2023, 10:53 pm
For this Kat, the fact that counsel for Villa Crop raised this plea is ingenious especially resulting as it were in the possibility of indirectly addressing the negative consequences of a depository patent system such as operates in South Africa. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 8:04 am
Over to Luke: "Some, including this guest Kat, were attending having only recently watched the new X-Files episode in which artificial intelligence, including a self-driving car, had learnt its behaviour from considering how humanity behaved. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 1:38 am
Kat friend Jan Jacobi reports on a consequential decision by the General Court on official symbols. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 5:20 am
This Kat is not dressing up this HalloweenLicensor’s considerationsThe licensor is usually the primary originator (not necessarily the owner!) [read post]
11 Jun 2018, 2:59 am
Earlier this year, this Kat reported on the UK Court of Appeal decision that Regeneron's patent EP1360287, and its divisional EP2264163, were sufficient and infringed by Kymab (IPKat posts here and here). [read post]
19 Jul 2023, 9:18 am
This is because PDOs and PGIs are two different rights that accord two different types of protection [this Kat notes: there are numerous studies showing a low consumer awareness of what PDOs and PGIs are, let alone the difference between them. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 10:26 pm
., a machinery.... and the best-known quantum (mechanics) Kat- Schrödinger's KatSecond, as this case clarifies, an NFT is born with the digital artwork. [read post]
