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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

It's time for a weekly review of posts from the surrounding IP blogs over the past week! Marks IP has reported on the background to the dispute and the JPO's decision on the invalidity action. The Kluwer Copyright Blog, therefore, explains potential challenges that may arise. The IPKat has reported on a few of them below.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

Here they are in case you missed them: TRADE MARKS Katfriend Marijus Dingilevskis posted on a recent decision of the Lithuanian Supreme Court, which states that even if a trade mark has been registered in the international register for 40 years, this is no guarantee that a subsequent national designation will be also registered.

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Book review: Guidebook to Intellectual Property + discount code

The IPKat

It provides an outline of the basic legal principles and how the IP system works. The preface reiterates that the purpose of the book is to describe the essential nature of living IP law: "What we want is the reader to come away with a good idea of how IP works in practice."

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A Closer Insight into Copyright related Issues in the Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on the Commission’s Proposal for a Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, the tension between the new rules introduced by the Data Act Proposal and potential intellectual property protection, including copyright protection, will require further coordination efforts. This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement.

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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. Stage I: to the Open data directive. and not charging fees for re-use. 1(6) Open data directive).

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. According to the AG, it follows from Article 297 TFEU that EU law is, in principle, not capable of benefiting from copyright protection.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Welcome to the second trimester of the 2022 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, we update readers every three months on developments in EU copyright law. This is perhaps one of the most awaited judgemnts in the history of EU copyright law. EU Intellectual Property Office, 2022 IP Youth Scoreboard.