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3 Aug 2014, 9:00 am
This is what he writes:The Proposal for a Directive on Trade Secrets: the Max Planck Institute (MPI) comments Having published a first opinion on a proposed Directive on the Protection of Trade Secrets on 12 May (only available in German, here) on 3 June, the Max Planck Institute has now made its comments available on the latest version of the proposal (on which see Alberto Bellan's post here). [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 12:13 am
VantablackA few months ago our friend Alberto Bellan at the IPKat discussed the very question whether it is possible to own a colour, especially when this is Vantablack, ie the "blackest black ever existed".Today The 1709 Blog is delighted to host a guest contribution by Divya Mirlay (Christ College, Bangalore) on the specific copyright implications surrounding Vantablack.Here's what Divya writes:"Oscar Wilde in his inimitable fashion once said,… [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 1:33 pm
Alberto Bellan discusses the final judgment delivered by the Court of Justice of the European Union which invalidated the registration for a three-dimensional sign depicting a Rubik’s cube as being an infringement of Article 7(1)(e)(ii) of the Trade Marks Regulation , i.e. a sign which consists of the shape of goods which is necessary to obtain a technical result and consequently, quashes the General Court decision of 25 November 2014, Case T-450/09 Simba Toys v OHIM. [read post]
21 Dec 2015, 1:31 am
As usual, nothing to worry about because our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back with the 77thedition of his Never Too Late feature.This is what happened on this very blog last week:* General Court rejects 5-stripes shoe markNikos reports on a General Court’s decision of 4 December 2015 in case T-3/15, addressing the distinctive character of a position mark made of 5 stripes on a shoe.* "All due care" when not responsible for renewalsDavid pens… [read post]
28 Sep 2014, 4:00 pm
Katfriend Alberto Bellan, making his blogging debut for the 1709 Blog team, investigates the constitutionality of blocking injunctions to stop online copyright infringement in Italy, while veteran commentator Ben Challis touches on a surprising subject for rampant copyright infringement: insect photography [Merpel wishes to clarify, after all the fuss about portrait photographs taken by black-crested macaques, that "insect photography" refers to photography of insects,… [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 5:13 am
Do not despair, because our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back as usual with his Never Too Late feature, now on its 66th edition.So here's what happened last week:* Compensation or punishment: A lot of questions about Article 13 Enforcement Directive"Punitive damages" is one of those topics that sharply divide the community of European lawyers. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 3:34 am
Still excited after flying from Milan to London just to attend the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice [#jiplp10 was the relevant hashtag, and our beloved Jeremy live-blogged the event here], our dear friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is nonetheless back with his 74th edition of his invariably helpful Never Too Late feature, summarising the content of last week's Katposts.Wondering if you missed anything? [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 4:08 pm
Back in the saddle after too long enjoying himself, Katfriend Alberto Bellan has produced the following summaries of last week's substantive Katposts. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 1:47 am
If you were away last week, or too busy working to check us out, this is what you missed (courtesy of Jeremy together with Alberto Bellan): Star Wars? [read post]
3 May 2015, 10:33 pm
Anyway, with his usual economy of words, charm and panache, our good friend Alberto Bellan has been digging through last week's substantive Katposts and has summarised them for you in case you may have missed (or avoided) them:* Why things are as they are in patent law: forgotten principles and histories, and the role of complexitySuleman’s post ‘Subject Matter Relationships: the need for strictness, complexity and fuzziness’… [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 3:35 am
Not just Eiffel 65, but also Never Too Late 65If last week Jeremy took the opportunity to link our dear friend Alberto Bellan's invariably helpful Never Too Late feature to Beatles song When I'm Sixty-Four, this week the 65th edition of Never Too Late cannot but be linked to a great Italian group that is immediately associated with this number, ie Eiffel 65 [authors of unforgettable and thoughtful tunes like Blue (Da Ba Dee) and Voglia di Dance All Night,… [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 11:48 am
As usual, don’t worry because our friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is back with his Never Too Late feature, now on its 83rd edition.This is what happened on this very blog last week:* Postcard from the Valley: Patent trolls alive and kicking in 2016? [read post]
11 May 2016, 1:04 am
BREAKING NEWS: CJEU says Tobacco Products Directive is valid Alberto Bellan brings you the latest on plain tobacco packaging. [read post]
18 May 2015, 11:01 am
The 46th weekly round-up of the previous week's Katposts, brought to you by loyal Katfriend Alberto Bellan, reflects the fact that the week was a relatively quiet one on this weblog -- and that it was a quiet week for Europe's troubled patent community. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 4:10 pm
Now that we've looked at the bits of the wikileaked text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that govern its General Provisions (by Alberto Bellan, here), Copyright (by Angela Daly, here), and Trade Marks (again by Alberto Bellan, here), it's time for patents -- and who better than our good friend, PatLit blogger and former guest Kat Stefano Barazza, to take on the subject for us. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 12:36 am
With this, the twenty-second weekly round-up of the previous week's blog posts, brought to you by our noble and gracious friend Alberto Bellan, we tidy up our last batch of November blogposts. [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 12:36 pm
Thanks again, Alberto, for all your hard work! [read post]
11 May 2015, 3:05 pm
If you were one of those people and missed a batch of Katposts, you can check them all out below.Once again the IPKat is indebted to his good and amiable friend Alberto Bellan, who has sampled all the posts and has this to report:* A Kat visits #INTA15: PreludeThe International Trademark Association (INTA) has held its 137th Meeting in San Diego this year, deep in the sunny south of California. [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 1:39 am
Do not worry because our lovely friend and colleague Alberto Bellan is here to rescue you with his 63rd Never Too Late feature, summarising the best of last week's Katposts:* Publishers should not be the beneficiaries of any fair compensation, says the European Copyright SocietyThe European Copyright Society is back, and this time issues an assessment of a case currently pending before the CJEU, this being HP Belgium v Reprobel, C-572/13, a Belgian… [read post]
23 Nov 2015, 2:40 pm
To help you help navigate the previous week's blogposts, here is the regular weekly summary which has again been artfully stitched together by Katfriend extraordinaire Alberto Bellan for your comfort and convenience. [read post]
