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16 Oct 2020, 3:32 am
Following a recent guest post on Singaporean developments in the law of confidence, this Kat is now turning to a similar scenario considered by the Court of Appeal (England & Wales). [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 10:11 am
While believing that a more flexible system of copyright exceptions would be a good idea, this Kat is not so sure that current Article 5 of the InfoSoc Directive allows Member States to adopt their own fair use exceptions. [read post]
30 Nov 2021, 7:45 am
Kat friend, Becky Knott, promises that she doesn’t just write about alcohol, see here, but a recent decision involving the Protected Designation of Origin for ‘Porto’ caught her eye (palate?). [read post]
1 Feb 2019, 6:30 am
This Kat has vivid memories of when he ceased to receive invitations to Young EPLAW’s (legendary) annual gatherings because he had reached the club’s age limit (36 years). [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 12:37 am
A particularly unusual application of the principle recently occurred in a case in Israel, as reported by Kat friend Adar Ortal. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 3:39 pm
It is not clear to this Kat whether this makes a patent attorney's job easier or more difficult, particularly if the object of clear wording in the claim might be to exclude embodiments which the drafter wants to exclude, for example if they fall within the prior art. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:04 am
This Kat was delighted to spot, courtesy of a Tweet from Carpmaels & Ransford, an extraordinary case in the Privy Council of interest primarily to patent necrophiliacs, concerning as it does the Jamaican Patent Act 1857 (yes, really), which apparently bears some similarities to the United Kingdom Patent Law Amendment Act 1852. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 1:31 am
* Surprise agreement on trade secrets – but still surprisingly secretiveAnother IP-Christmas present from Brussels is the “provisional agreement” on the proposed EU Trade Secrets Directive, which Kat friend Mark Ridgway (Allen & Overy) comments for us. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 1:50 am
What follows is the story of the Indian organization –"Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education", (IDIA), founded by Kat friend Professor Shamnad Basheer, a noted figure in the Indian IP community. [read post]
17 Nov 2015, 2:56 pm
This moggy is an old-fashioned Kat, who believes that most people are good, most of the time, and that patent offices are places where patents should be examined. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 1:47 am
Kat friends Prof. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 6:38 am
Peter, with whom this Kat agrees, thinks that this trend is not widely appreciated [in both senses of the word, suspects Merpel] in the profession and merits discussion.This is what Peter says:The puzzle of the British invention: where have all our patent applications gone? [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 1:31 am
Former Guest Kat Darren Meale (Simmons & Simmons, London) explains.* BREAKING: AG Szpunar says that fair compensation for private copying can be funded through state budget but amount cannot be established ex anteEleonora reports on Advocate General Maciej Szpunar's Opinion in EGEDA C-470/14 [here], a reference for a preliminary ruling from the Spanish Supreme Court seeking clarification as to whether private copying can be public-funded and, if so, whether… [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 2:37 am
This Kat is delighted to review “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Intellectual Property and Trade in the Pacific Rim”, by Matthew Rimmer (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, 616 pp). [read post]
1 Oct 2020, 1:41 am
Kat friend Aaron Thng discusses a recent decision in Singapore that reminds us how expansive the claim can be in the context of a successful opposition. [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 12:47 pm
Kats of course generally have no problem viewing the bottom of a saddle from our vantage point, the more pertinent bicycle-related issue being that of tender tails crossing paths with busy humans on wheels. [read post]
17 Feb 2022, 7:32 am
So much for making fun of copyright holders in Denmark.... and the Kat-MermaidFinally, the Court examined whether the use could be permitted with reference to Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 6:10 am
This Kat changed the translation of ‘士’ from ‘officer’ to ‘scholar’, which seems more accurate, in her humble opinion. [read post]
2 Sep 2023, 12:59 am
Kat-localization map(see here)The IPRs considered in the study are copyright, trade marks and designs. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 2:23 am
Kat Eleonora now provides an update on copyright and tattoos, in particular litigation in a scenario where the owner of the body (clearly a tangible medium) on which the tattoo is affixed is not also the owner of the copyright in the work (the tattoo): Copyright and tattoos: where are we now? [read post]
