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28 Sep 2015, 3:35 am
After Mark breaking post, here's our own Neil's insightful piece on that happy-ending story.* The final curtain in the GOLDBEAR sagaThe word "end" in the Haribo v Lindt golden chocolate bear litigation (see IPKat posts here, hereand here) has just been put by German Supreme Court. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 4:08 pm
Anyway. this is what you missed last week:* The Key to Confusion: Supreme Court of BC decides on Keyword Advertising and Passing OffJani recounts the tale of Vancouver Community College v Vancouver Career College 2015 BCSC 1470, a challenging case concerning a trade mark used as keyword in online advertising which just decided by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.* Draft consultation on online platforms leaked: does the EU really want ISPs to do (much) more? [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 1:39 am
* Nestlé v Cadbury: on mixing and matching grounds for exclusion under Article 3(1)(e) Trade Marks DirectiveBack again on the KitKat dispute pending before the CJEU (on which see here, here, here, and here), Mark further reflects upon Attorney General Wathelet's opinion on the second question, which is "Where a shape consists of three essential features, one of which results from the nature of the goods themselves and two of… [read post]
7 Sep 2015, 1:02 pm
Laetitia's first post, on product placement, can be read here, and her second post, covering non-traditional marks, is here. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 7:21 am
This analysis suggests that there could be substantial costs associated with exempting the pharmaceutical industry from the IPR process.Undermining pharma’s ability to raise drug prices and bringing down the cost of medications overall is one of the motivations that Bass has claimed is behind his IPR strategy. [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 1:47 am
Breaking News: PTAB declines Bass hedge fund IPR challenges in Ampyra disputeThe Coalition for Affordable Drugs (brain child of hedge-fund manager Kyle Bass) experiences disappointment as the USPTO opts not to review a couple of big-value pharma patents. [read post]
27 Aug 2015, 3:34 am
The USPTO refused registration of the mark PURPLE HAZE for "electronic sound pickup for guitars and basses," finding the mark likely to cause confusion with the registered mark HAZE for "sound amplifiers. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 4:35 pm
A KatPat goes to Mark Ridgway (Allen & Overy), for alerting the AmeriKat to this decision. [read post]
22 Aug 2015, 1:48 pm
Will Bass be a fish out of water following next week'sUSPTO decision? [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 7:39 am
Despite often experiencing the phenomena, the AmeriKat did not have a name for it until she saw the term in an incredible book entitled Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker, a British Airways pilot who sings the wonder of air travel. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 11:00 pm
Last Friday marked my final day working for Lewisham Council. [read post]
6 Jun 2015, 10:25 am
The concession it asked was an enormous one: The industry demanded that Congress effectively cripple the process at the Patent Office where Bass had challenged the Jazz patent.Roberts is not so clear on how the IPR process is "effectively crippled. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 10:02 pm
In these situations, careful monitoring and a visual marking or signage is helpful. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 3:24 pm
“Use of the inter partes review process as a tool to manipulate markets is not what Congress intended,” Acorda Therapeutics Inc. said in a filing asking the agency to reject Bass’s petition to cancel a patent on the multiple sclerosis drug Ampyra.link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-04/then-came-the-hedge-funds-patent-death-squad-causes-a-ruckus [read post]
29 May 2015, 11:12 am
" The passage of five or six descending notes starting at about the 1:37 mark of "Taurus" is kind of similar to the bass part (not the iconic opening notes denied in "Wayne's World,") but hardly enough to justify an infringement claim, it seems to me. [read post]
12 Apr 2015, 6:07 am
Mark Weller wants the penny saved (Americans for Common Sense). [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 9:59 am
One such friend is occasional guest blogger Dorothea Thompson, once upon a time a trade mark attorney but now recycled at London-based law firm Bray & Krais. [read post]
12 Mar 2015, 9:56 am
[Sorry for all the italics and quotation marks, but it really is a crazy and completely counter-intuitive way to think about the creative process that we are forced, kicking and screaming, to utilize when we are in Copyrightville, and I find that one needs them to get one's points across] So instead of asking the jury to compare the two recordings (sensible), they were asked to compare the two “musical compositions” (not sensible). [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 2:15 am
The IPKat urges readers to make arrangements to mark the day, especially if they can bring together not just IP owners but those of us who consume IP, often in great quantities, for work and leisure purposes. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 4:06 am
Les -- a veteran bass guitarist whose varied career stretches from playing with the Wombles (right) to Lou Reed -- paid a visit to Whosampled.com. [read post]
