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27 Apr 2021, 6:09 am
Kat friend Ian Gill reports on how miniscule trademark use may be enough to support a passing off claim and maintain a EU trademark registration. [read post]
8 Oct 2021, 5:59 am
Here is a selection of a few of the recommendations that this Kat considers may have the most practical consequences if implemented:All trainees should take the PEB Foundation examsAt the moment, it is possible for trainee patent attorneys to take either a University run course and exams or the CIPA Foundations exams. [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]
30 Jun 2019, 3:00 pm
This Kat writing her last post as a GuestKat! [read post]
24 Jul 2019, 9:28 am
Kat friend Shawn Poon from Singapore discusses a recent decision there that tackles one of the perennially vexing issues of trademark law, namely when does a variant form of a registered mark not count as use. [read post]
5 Sep 2019, 6:36 am
Will this Kat be competent to judge? [read post]
27 Apr 2020, 1:30 am
In fact, a grower that has planted a plant variety during the “provisional period” - without the authorization of the rightsholder – would be legally entitled to freely exploit the harvested material, even after the PVRs are granted, theoretically “forever”, namely until the plant variety dies; provided – of course - that the grower pays the rightsholder the “reasonable compensation” provided by Article 95.This conclusion has been strongly criticized… [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 6:45 am
Now only if we could clone Kats....Following from the IPKat's alert last week of the Advocate General's Opinion in the reference from Henry Carr QC (sitting as Deputy Judge of the High Court) [not Mr Justice Arnold, as previously indicated] in International Stem Cell Corporation v Comptroller General of Patents, Shohta Ueno, Associate with Allen & Overy's IP Litigation team in London, helpfully summarizes the key points of the AG's Opinion… [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 10:15 am
IP student looking for some IP experience Coming highly recommended by Kat Eleonora, one of her IP law students at the University of Southampton, Alexander Pirnak, would like to get some exposure to IP work. [read post]
17 Jul 2024, 12:01 am
A court judgment in Uganda had raised similar questions which this Kat analysed in 2019. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 6:51 am
Former Guest Kat Valentina Torelli has carefully followed developments in the lead-up to the introduction on October 1st of a certification mark at the EU level. [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]
18 May 2016, 9:57 am
This Kat is grateful for this thoughtful piece penned by Katfriend James Sweeting, Senior Associate at Lewis Silkin.We all know that the Chancery Division is changing and modernising in a number of ways. [read post]
26 Sep 2021, 2:33 am
Kat cloudDoes the private copying exception and, with it, the fair compensation requirement under Article 5(2)(b) of the InfoSoc Directive apply to reproductions carried out by using cloud-based recording services? [read post]
26 Jan 2021, 1:24 am
Kat friend, Dr. [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 9:20 am
Rarely do any of the Kats have a chance to reflect on anything Hungarian unless it's on a menu and full of paprika, so it is with great pleasure that they welcome this guest post from young Hungarian IP scholar Adam György, who is currently studying for an LLM in the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (here). [read post]
19 Apr 2013, 4:01 am
It seems to this Kat (but perhaps it's just imagination) that in the last couple of years there has been an increasing push from EPO examiners to require applicants at the beginning of examination to import into functional software claims many more of the implementation details than previously, on the basis that these are "essential elements" which the examiner believes are required to achieve a claimed function. [read post]
3 Feb 2018, 10:00 am
This Kat believes it is quite likely that the Jury will answer this question in the affirmative, due to the fact that Cox prevented itself from receiving any of the nearly two million notices that Rightscorp, Inc. sent on BMG’s behalf. [read post]
28 Mar 2019, 5:51 am
Shortly afterwards, on 9 November 2018, during the China International Import Expo, Pinduoduo (see a Kat’s post on Pinduoduo here) signed cooperative agreements on the protection of books’ copyright with both the Beijing-based 15 Anti-Piracy Alliance and the Children's Publishing Anti-Piracy Alliance. [read post]
9 Dec 2019, 6:48 am
This Kat is reminded of Bertrand’s Russell’s analogy of the “celestial teapot”. [read post]
