The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Katfriend Léon Dijkman discussed the role of the proportionality test under European patent law in deciding whether to grant an injunction. Trade Marks Chijioke Okorie provided an overview of the key developments in trade mark law across the African continent as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The discussion will cover trademarks, patents and designs. Book launch: European Patent Law. The Unified Patent Court and the European Patent Convention. On Thursday 23 November , the Book Launch: European Patent Law. The event is free. To register and find more details, here.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2023

Tritton on Intellectual Property in Europe is now in its Sixth Edition. This weighty tome from Sweet & Maxwell is edited by Richard Davis, Thomas St Quintin and Guy Tritton from Hogarth Chambers , London. Find out more about Rosie here.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2021

Over on FOSS Patents, Florian Mueller commented on the new German patent law, questioning its ability to make a real difference to issues such as the so-called injunction gap, and reported on the newest patent division of the Munich I Regional Court starting operations. Picture from Pexels on Pixabay.

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Patently-O

MAY 6, 2024

” The printed matter doctrine a unique and somewhat amorphous concept in patent law that straddles the line between patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § On the eligibility side, the doctrine serves as a screening tool to exclude claims that are directed solely to the content of information from patent protection.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

The analysis also referred to a pending case before the CJEU dealing with Community design law ( EUIPO v The KaiKai Company Jaeger Wichmann | C-382/21-P) and other EU trade mark cases from 2021. The search for EUTM case law before EU Courts from the previous year was based on decisions included in the eSearch Case Law database.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

This is a book review of The Future of Intellectual Property , edited by Daniel J. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, US. In the introduction, Gervais explains that the approach to discussing IP law reform taken in this edited collection is considering both primary and secondary level reform.

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SpicyIP

MAY 14, 2022

Shamnad Basheer’s 46th birth anniversary today, we at SpicyIP are proud to announce the third edition of the Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law. Shamnad won the very first edition of that competition for his essay on Section 3(d) of the Patents Act. A photograph of Prof. (Dr.) Shamnad Basheer.

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Patently-O

APRIL 11, 2024

Of course, Congress designed § 271(f) with extraterritorial effects in mind: in adopting the provision, Congress overruled the Supreme Court’s decision in Deepsouth Packing Co. Congress designed § 271(f) to reach extraterritorial conduct, unlike § 271(a). However, I was not involved in the writing or editing of this guest post.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

This sets SEP litigations apart from other patent litigations wherein the patentee could be more interested in securing an injunction and keeping the monopoly for itself or for its chosen licensees. The ‘patents are an incentive to innovate’ paradigm often makes us forget that patents have an important socio-development function as well.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Fact also delineates specific categories—1960 report of meaning of “writings” that is a precursor to 102(b) lists ideas, dress designs, reports of current events, names/titles. Q: patent parallels: to what extent were parallels solidified in patent law already? Karp is misreading both George and the spirit of ©.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Patents Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court (before that, the House of Lords) have all and for many years stressed the need for consistency with decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO. The Round Table will tackle the overlap (or interference!) More information here (download or open the paper).

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IIPRD

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hence, the traveling chaos of F1 is a world filled with patents, trademarks, copyrights, and Trade Secrets. IP can be found in the chassis of cars, uniforms, merchandise, various engineering and designing equipment, television broadcasting, and most importantly, carefully hidden trade secrets. One primary reason would be that of time.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

The notice is designed as a reminder to individuals involved in proceedings before the USPTO of that these pertinent rules and policies, and provides suggestions to mitigate the risks associated with AI use. .”

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

In particular, ChatGPT is a type of “language” model designed to respond with a natural language reply when prompted with a text-based question. The “Chat” in ChatGPT refers to this question-and-answer design, where ChatGPT behaves like a ChatBot. Patent law requires at least one human inventor.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

.” Jarrod Welsh, Copyrighting God: New Copyright Guidelines Do Not Protect Divine Beings, 17 Rutgers Journal Of Law & Religion 121 (2015). As that Compendium notes in its 2021 edition at Section 313.2 : The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants. Compendium, at Section 313.2 ]. ” Id.

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