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14 Feb 2014, 10:19 am
When, in 2007, Marguerite Hoffman, a prominent Dallas art collector, decided to sell a major painting by Mark Rothko (Untitled, 1961), she insisted on confidentiality. [read post]
6 Feb 2014, 12:40 pm
The oldest use of the term “TwIqbal” on Google was in an August 25, 2009, blogpost on the Virginia Appellate Law blog entitled “Twiqbal Alert: Branham v. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 12:04 pm
At the time of composing this blogpost, WIPO's website still has details of the 2013 event on display, but the Kats are sure that this will soon change. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 8:13 am
Class 46's latest blogposts feature an OHIM Board of Appeal decision on whether PAOLA for rum might be confused with VILLA PAOLA for wines, noted by Pedro Malaquias, a General Court ruling on whether GOLDSTEIG and a figurative mark containing "Goldstuck" might be confused for a variety of edibles in Class 29, potted by Laetitia Lagarde, and this piece by Tomaz Rychlicki on the legal interest of foreign companies (in this case Aldi, from Germany) in Polish opposition proceedings, when… [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 4:30 am
Last week we wrote about body part transplants. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 4:00 am
And until someone in our field earns their millions by figuring out a simple law firm equivalent to Google’s PageRank algorithm, as Ryan McClead sets out in a 3 Geeks blogpost from 2012, we need to find other magical ways to match the ease, simplicity and quality of the Google experience. [read post]
19 Jan 2014, 2:33 pm
Last week Kay published a fairly lengthy blogpost entitled “Old knowledge and new science: using traditional knowledge in CGIAR research”. [read post]
16 Jan 2014, 4:56 pm
Para 2 was dealt with in the previous blogpost, but it needs reproducing here in its entirety:For the purposes of paragraph 1, users shall seek, keep and transfer to subsequent users:(a) the internationally recognised certificate of compliance, as well as information on the content of the mutually agreed terms relevant for subsequent users; or(b) where no internationally recognised certificate of compliance is available, information and relevant documents on:(i) the… [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 7:38 am
"Bolar CJEU reference: Poles say no, Germans say yes" was the title of a PatLit blogpost back on 11 December 2013 which brought news via katfriend Paul England (Taylor Wessing LLP) that the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal, Germany, had referred some questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for a preliminary ruling as to whether and, if so, under what conditions, the supply of patent-protected substances by a third party to a generic company, which intends to use the… [read post]
15 Jan 2014, 12:18 am
Also, the IPKat supposed that readers may well want a forum to debate this topic and offers this blogpost as a starting point.Recipients of the CIPA Journal will see both missives published in the December edition that should just have hit your desks.In summary the proposals upon which IPReg is consulting are:1) To abolish the "Foundation" exam papers (the first level examinations that are typically taken about a year after beginning in the profession) in favour of accredited courses such… [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 8:56 am
In a way, titles of most IP law books are as dull and unmemorable as names of pharmaceutical products, but that's a subject for another blogpost ... [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 8:08 am
Here's Miri's update:Pork Rinds May Be Death Knell For NFL Redskins TeamIn September, when the IPKat published this blogpost and corresponding reader poll about whether the US National Football League (NFL) team currently known as the Washington Redskins should change its name due to increasing popular belief that the term “Redskins” is a derogatory term that is offensive to Native Americans, the response was emotionally charged: there was a near 50-50 split between those… [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 7:43 am
As I contemplated writing a blogpost, I realized that the best testament to the critical place of MH was hanging on the wall across from my desk. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 3:26 am
The answer to that question is the topic of another blogpost. [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 4:01 pm
IPKAT ADVISORY: THE CONTENTS OF THIS BLOGPOST MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE WITH NO SENSE OF HUMOUR, OR WITH A DIFFERENT SENSE OF HUMOUR TO MERPEL'SInspired by Neil's post, "2013-Ten IP Stories That We Wish We Had Written", here, Merpel has decided to do a bit of wishful thinking of her own, listing some stories she'd love to write:* "European Commission apologises over unitary/unified patent disaster, promises: 'next time we'll listen to the experts'".Not only does… [read post]
28 Dec 2013, 1:39 pm
I did enjoy a comment on this blogpost by Anonymous – who is, clearly, a very busy person, popping up on blogs all over the place – “I’ve never understood why we have concurrent sentences for consecutive crimes. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 10:00 am
The IPKat is delighted that none other than Derk (with an e not an i) Visser, esteemed author of The Annotated European Patent Convention, and also colleague of this Kat, accepted a commission to write a guest blogpost about this. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 5:54 am
David Williams hosts this week's roundup of risky blogposts. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 3:24 am
My blogpost discusses the issue and tries to find a justification for imposing plain packaging and marketing restrictions on infant formula but not on tobacco products. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 3:13 am
The blogpost goes on to examine arguments that these restrictions are not only a contravention of the constitutional protection of property under South African law but also infringe the principle of freedom of commercial speech [says Merpel: it would be foolhardy to ignore the constitutional dimension to IP law in South Africa in light of the ruling of the country's Constitutional Court in SABMiller v Laugh It Off, the famous 'BLACK LABEL/BLACK LABOUR' dispute, noted here. [read post]
