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6 Aug 2023, 10:00 pm
To mark this milestone, we organized an event in London in June 2023 [Katreports here, here, here and here] and Kats Hayleigh and Eleonora put together a collection of chapters authored by current and past IPKat Team Members, as well as some eminent Katfriends. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 8:21 am
The AG's Opinion, as delivered in handy 137 paragraphs As recalled by the AG, the CJEU has dealt with the interpretation of Article 5(2) of the InfoSoc Directive in a number of occasions, the most relevant of which (at least for the sake of the present proceedings) was the 2010 judgment in Case C-467/08 Padawan (on which see Kat posts here and here), a case which dealt with the private copying exception. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 5:27 am
As Jeremy explains, the event will focus on negotiation and coexistence agreements and will feature some notable Katfriends including John Noble (Director of the British Brands Group), recent guest Kat Darren Meale (Simmons & Simmons), Judge Fidelma Macken (Deputy District Judge, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Irish Supreme Court), Sam Granata (Antwerp Commercial Court judge), Flip Petillion (Crowell & Moring dispute resolution… [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 1:48 am
Dreaming of enhancedprotection for Kat healthHowever, he used the case study of ZYTIGA and how market authorisations were granted nearly 20 years after the initial patents to illustrate that data exclusivity can be a more effective incentive than patent protection. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 12:31 am
This Kat is not a US attorney; nor is he a specialist in computer implemented inventions, so he hesitated to write a report of the US Supreme Court decision Alice Corp. v CLS Bank International, which has attracted a lot of comment from the brief mention in Friday Fantasies. [read post]
24 Jan 2023, 2:43 am
See here for the timeline of the draft proposal, here Kat Anastasiia Kyrylenko's post on the draft Law, and here for the new law (Ukrainian only). [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 2:01 am
It is posted on the EPLAW Patent Blog, here, but Wouter has kindly agreed to let the Kats reproduce it here for ease of reference. [read post]
17 Feb 2018, 7:30 am
Of interest to readers, the case was run in the Shorter Trial Scheme (see previous Kat post here) and applied recent case law on claim interpretation, validity, infringement and the use of prosecution history following the Supreme Court in Actavis v Lilly.L'Oreal claimed that certain products in RN Venture's range of Magnitone devices infringed its patent - EP(UK) 1 722 699 - and Community Registered Designs - RCD Nos 000407747-001 and 001175046-001. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:00 am
The decision of Mr Justice Birss in the case reviewed below is however so interesting that this Kat hopes that some of the good folk who habitually skip the patent stuff will give it a read. [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:12 am
This is not in itself an infringement of Article 3(1) of Directive 2001/29 (the InfoSoc Directive), said this morning Advocate General (AG) Melchior Wathelet in his Opinion in GS Media, C-160/15.This is big news, in that the AG advised the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) do depart significantly from the jurisprudence inaugurated with the (in)famous 2014 decision in Svensson [here for Kat-coverage].BackgroundAs readers will remember, this reference for a… [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 10:36 am
Former Guest Kat, Darren Meale, of Simmons & Simmons, London, recently shared his preliminary thoughts on Article 28 declarations. [read post]
1 Jul 2017, 9:39 am
The Court explained, citing this paper by former Guest Kat, Professor Norman Siebrasse (see Norman's blog here), that this was a doctrine from a different era which was based on the view that no one wanted to second guess the Crown in its exercise of granting a patent. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 1:48 am
In this first of IPKat's follow-up posts, this Kat delves deeper into the court's take on the issue of plausibility.The plausibility of second medical use inventions - why is it necessary? [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 12:46 am
Kats can't currently be clonedDarren Meale has been following the Brexit developments closely and providing IPKat readers with a best guess at what will happen when the clock runs out. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 4:54 am
Interestingly (in this Kat's view at least), if a court rejects a without notice application, the applicant can bring an appeal without even involving the respondent.It is worth adding that if an applicant seeks an interim injunction in respect of the respondent’s appearance at an imminent trade fair, it is generally much easier to obtain the injunction ex parte. [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 4:05 am
This morning, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) issued its long-awaited opinion in the Unwired Planet/Huawei case [decision here, docket here, neutral citation: [2020] UKSC 37]. [read post]
2 Mar 2015, 5:41 am
I named it after myself not just because both cats and Kats are notoriously vain, but - importantly - because it was intended to be neither authoritative nor exhaustive.Now that I have finished the trade mark part of my undergraduate intellectual property law course at the University of Southampton, I have prepared another checklist, this time for alleged trade mark infringement cases. [read post]
17 Jan 2016, 7:15 am
Courtesy of Kat friend James Pooley, comes news that the witnesses' responses to questions from Senator Grassley, Senator Klobuchar and Senator Whitehouse are now public. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 12:30 am
The fresh ruling in December 2016 issued by the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) on the “Michael Jordan” 4+ years legal battle has attracted great attention (see a Guest Kat report here). [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 7:40 pm
Without getting in hot water with Kat readers, my sense has been that your IP case law avoids both the "litigation on steroids" nature of US litigation and the heavy weight of the judicial past in UK judgments. [read post]
