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12 Jan 2012, 4:21 am
Judge Birss QC, sitting in the Patents County Court, came up with the following analysis: English law focused on the profits made by the infringer rather than the damage suffered by the proprietor -- these being its net profits [This is not a novel proposition: this Kat can't remember a time when it didn't apply]. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 8:28 am
On the part of rich countries there is excessive zeal for protecting knowledge through an unduly rigid assertion of the right to intellectual property, especially in the field of health care".The Kat notes that the Pope and the politician each espouse the moral high ground in order to dampen the ardour of those who create the wealth to which they don't aspire. [read post]
3 Apr 2010, 3:30 pm
The AmeriKat is on Kat duties this weekend and so to that end she has been dosing herself up on caffeine ready for any breaking IP news. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 9:58 am
This Kat was wondering what has been happening in Australia, where plain packaging for tobacco products has been mooted as a means of discouraging smoking. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 11:21 am
Attorney Maia Kats, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which advocates for healthier food, said Coca-Cola’s “campaign of disinformation to cast doubt on the science connecting sugar-sweetened beverages to obesity, and obesity-related diseases like diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” is no different from Big Tobacco’s “campaign of disinformation to cast doubt on the science connecting cigarettes to lung cancer and other diseases. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 4:00 pm
While naturally no self-respecting and sophisticated Kat would ever fall prey to such mimicry, it is common knowledge that approximately 99.9% of ordinary mortals will quite easily be induced to pick up the copycat product -- which is why "unnecessary similarity" is practised. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 8:19 am
" This Kat believes that the conclusion of the Court is sound, as was its interpretation and application of fair use precedents. [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 11:33 am
The quality checking of this blog is largely done by its readers, who are quick to pounce on errors (real or imagined) and to suggest ways of improving the service, for which thanks are sincerely due.Both Kats wonder how other offices perform quality checks on oppositions, both in the field of trade marks and in patents. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 2:03 pm
The Kat can now tell his readers what has happened, thanks to this press statement, issued by none other than appellate judge Ulrika Ihrfelt on Friday, 26 November. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 2:13 am
A little-known fact about Asim is that he is actually a Kat himself, in French terms: his email is asingh@leolex.fr and, as is well known, "leo" is the Latin for the biggest cat of all, the lion. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:19 pm
As it is, the hour is late and the Kat has little to say, other than that the words “by means of their own facilities” appear to have been interpreted broadly and in terms that reflect commercial reality -- a mode of interpretation that national courts may wish to consider carefully when deciding how to determine the parameters of copyright. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 3:59 am
However, it is not known whether the ECJ will agree when it gives its decision (which the Kat expects some time early next year).Report on the ECJ's hearing herePress release on today's Opinion hereEarly reports on the Advocate General's Opinion by Stephanie Bodoni (Bloomberg) here, from The Financial Times/Reuters here and The Wall Street Journal hereGoogle AdWords service. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 1:43 am
One such case is Brandeaux Advisers (UK) Ltd and others v Ruth Chadwick [2010] EWHC 3241 (QB), a decision of Mr Justice Jack late last year but only recently spotted by this Kat. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 6:52 am
Eager readers will no doubt recall this Kat's post on the Advocate General's Opinion back in November 2011 here [there's usually a six-month lag between the Opinion and the ruling. [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 1:55 pm
Fortunately this weblog has received this very helpful explanatory note, prepared and translated into English by the Kat's friend Stephen Vousden. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 9:12 am
Currently without a wristwatch, this Kat has discovered how sociable it can be to discover what the time is by asking everyone around if they can kindly tell him. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 7:21 am
This Kat suspects that he and Merpel may be hearing from others too in the near future ... [read post]
30 Sep 2021, 5:32 am
According to NTV.com, Bursa’da ilginç olay: Kayıp olduğu sanılan kişi kendisini arama çalışmasına katıldı, which evidently means “Interesting event in Bursa: The person who was thought to be missing participated in the search for himself. [read post]
17 Dec 2010, 1:02 am
Since the judgment was so short, the Kat is reproducing almost all of it here. [read post]
28 Jul 2024, 3:27 am
Writer Kat Rosenfield called it “fandom politics”—an advocacy “fueled by rhetoric that is participatory fun for people already in the fandom, but categorically not persuasive to people outside it. [read post]
