Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 4, 2022

But for anyone who had expected the Data Act to include a revision of the Database Directive — an ambition that the Commission had signalled in both the 2020 Data Strategy and the 2020 Intellectual Property Action Plan — the final proposal will be a major disappointment. A right that shall not be exercised.

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The IPKat

MAY 29, 2023

This Kat is pleased to review the “ Overlapping Intellectual Property rights ”, edited by Neil Wilkof [full disclosure: a member of the IPKat team], Shamnad Basheer, and Irene Calboli (OUP, 2023, 864 pp.). He also explains the history of why utility models never became an EU-wide right.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

This case relates to the sui generis database right and its application to the activity of search engines. UKIPO, UK’s future exhaustion of intellectual property rights regime. CJEU judgments and AG Opinions. CV-Online Latvia, Court of Justice, Case C ?762/19. You can read a comment on the case here.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 7, 2022

While the report outlines CISAC’s legislative lobbying actions in several countries to promote stronger laws protecting creators and rightsholders, it also pinpoints growing digital royalties and stronger laws safeguarding creators’ rights as top priorities. EU Intellectual Property Office, 2022 IP Youth Scoreboard. Stay tuned!

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