LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In a recent significant judgment 1 from the Irish Circuit Court, the judge concluded that “ justice is best served ” by granting a stay of a data subject’s damages claim pending determination of certain preliminary references currently before the CJEU.

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The IPKat

JULY 9, 2022

This week I attended the IP Case Law Conference , organized by the European Union Intellectual Property Office in what was factually accurate and often referred to during the 2-day event as “sunny Alicante”. This year’s edition also celebrated the 25 years of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal.

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The IPKat

APRIL 20, 2022

A Kat in desperate need of a coffee GuestKat Gabriele Girardello shared with us the trends and topics covered at the “Pharma & Biotech Patent Litigation” conference in Amsterdam, which he attended on 14-16 March 2022. The holiday is over and this Kat hopes that all readers managed to renew their energies.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Photo: shutterstock.com Book launch: Copyright and the CJEU UCL’s Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (‘IBIL’) will host the launch of the new edition of PermaKat Eleonora Rosati’s book ‘ Copyright and Court of Justice of the European Union ’ published by Oxford University Press.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The European Audiovisual Observatory (“EAO”) has recently published the Mapping report on national remedies against online piracy of sports content (“Report”), conducted at the request of the European Commission. The Resolution of the European Parliament on protection of live sports events and Frosio, G. and Bulayenko, O.,

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The IPKat

JUNE 3, 2022

These are the key issues on which the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has been requested to provide guidance. Preliminary remarks The AG began his Opinion noting how the topic of intermediary liability has always raised novel questions over time. Gigi was also awaiting her delivery.

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The IPKat

JULY 5, 2021

We also still had a referral pending at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Nokia v Daimler. meaning no answers from the CJEU. We had not yet experienced the torrential rains of May or the Dominic Cummings revenge tour.

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SpicyIP

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has affirmed multiple times, notably in its significant Infopaq ruling ( C-5/08 Infopaq International A/S v Danske Dagbaldes Forening ), that copyright is applicable exclusively to original creations. AI Generated ‘Work’ or Software Outcome?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even though it’s only an interim decision, it is interesting and well worth a read for any copyright lawyer because Deputy High Court Judge David Stone provides an in-depth analysis of the UK copyright position on artistic works. Instead, it concludes that it might be possible , but that the issue would need to go to trial to be determined.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The IPKat is delighted to host the guest post below, penned by Katfriend Hans Eriksson (Westerberg and Partners), on a recent Swedish decision which has applied the recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C-762/19 CV-Online Latvia.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this context, Austria’s Supreme Court requested a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The CJEU is also asked whether the two other companies owned by the platform could also be found liable for the communication to the public of the programs in Austria.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2023

Introduction In this case before the Multi-member Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki, the plaintiff requested judicial protection of his recipes (i.e., However, the Multi-member Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki found this claim not to be valid. dishes and seasonings) as works of IP. (1)

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This year’s conference theme was neighbouring and special rights, but an extraordinary roundtable also found its way into to the programme to discuss the ever-unavoidable copyright topic: Article 17 of the DSM Directive [Katposts here ]. Nevertheless, such a restriction is justified in light of protecting copyright (para 84).

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The IPKat

AUGUST 6, 2023

As IPKat readers know, it was only a couple of months ago that The IPKat celebrated its first 20 years of activity. The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. Twenty Years of The IPKat was published by Oxford University Press in spring 2023.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 31, 2022

The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. Given these concerns, Hugenholtz would have been relieved, no doubt, when the CJEU apparently declared that “sporting events cannot be regarded as intellectual creations classifiable as works” within the meaning of Directive 2001/29 on Copyright in the Information Society.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Last year was another busy one in the copyright world, with ongoing European copyright reform, a number of landmark CJEU decisions and notable developments in a number of jurisdictions. Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act by João Pedro Quintais Generative AI is one of the hot topics in copyright law today.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This review of Exceptions in EU Copyright Law: In Search of a Balance Between Flexibility and Legal Certainty by Tito Rendas, is brought to you by the Rt Hon Sir Richard Arnold, Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. In April 2020 and February 2021 two substantial new contributions to this debate were published.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. Part I of this post considered whether the ‘rules of the game’ or the CJEU’s Levola Hengolo requirement of ‘precise and objective ’ expression mean that football games are excluded from copyright. In case C-833/18, Brompton Bicycle , the Court noted that.

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