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

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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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The IPKat has reported on a few of them below. Marks IP has reported on the background to the dispute and the JPO's decision on the invalidity action. The concepts and role of the informed user and the degree of freedom of choice were recently clarified in Turkish design law, and Marques has reported on the case.

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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For public sector bodies — producers and holders of vast quantities of data — as well as for the companies that act as suppliers, the sui generis database right has been slowly eroded since 2003. What ideas the Commission has with respect to the Database directive is difficult to gauge from the consultation.

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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

This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement. The Data Act Proposal explicitly addresses the relationship between the new right to access and share IoT data and the sui generis database right provided for in Article 7 of Directive 96/9/EC.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

European Parliament, Report on AI in the Digital Age. In the beginning of April, the European Parliament published a report on AI in the Digital Age. The report, prepared by the very well-known to the copyright audience Mr Axel Voss, stresses the importance of harmonisation and clear and transparent enforcement of IPRs.

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A “pro-innovation” agenda: the UK Government’s Approach to AI and Digital Technology

LexBlog IP

The first report of this project was published on 15 March 2023 (the “ Vallance Report ”), and the UK Government released its response (the “ Government’s Response ”) shortly after. 3] “The Government is committed to bringing forward this legislation when parliamentary time allows.”

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 – A step towards “factfulness” by Jan Bernd Nordemann. At the end of 2021, YouTube’s first Copyright Transparency Report 2021 (“Report”) was published. In any case, this first YouTube Report is indeed a promising start (Paul Keller, op cit.), A vanishing right?