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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. PATENTS The EPO's new guidelines for examination came into force at the beginning of March. Meanwhile, in Japan, Apple Inc.

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

The IPKat

The author gave food for thought on the reproduction of works of art on book covers, on possible moral rights in the discussion, and on Walter Benjamin's notion of the "aura" of a work. PATENTS GuestKat Rose Hughes reported on a decision by the Court of Appeal of the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in the life science field on a dosage regime claim.

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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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Swedish court applies C-762/19 CV-Online Latvia in parking app battle

The IPKat

The CJEU’s recognition of the added value for customers that content aggregators can create, and the refined and subtle (while perhaps not totally clear) balancing act suggested by the decision, makes CV-Online Latvia an important addition to the CJEU’s database right jurisprudence. Parkamo GmbH.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

Now in its second edition, the book offers a perspective on how one can address the overlap between intellectual property (IP) rights, either to reconcile them in whole or in part, or to pre-empt one over the other. Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Focusing on SMEs, the report highlits that IP protection among these remains low. In addition, in order to help EU companies protect their AI with IP rights, the EU’s position as a global standard-setter should be strengthened. EU Intellectual Property Office, 2022 IP Youth Scoreboard. Coming soon and latest referrals.