The IPKat

MARCH 16, 2024

Events 18-19 April 2024: AIPPI Trilateral Seminar The Polish, German and French Groups of AIPPI organise the traditional joint seminar on IP related issues. Courses UCL’s Summer School 2024 The University College London offers a summer school programme on the ‘Foundations in Intellectual Property Law’. Read more about this course here.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 17, 2023

This book review is brought to you by Rosie Burbidge, London based IP partner at Gunnercooke. 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.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

If you've been too wrapped up with preparations for the holiday season , here's a summary of the IP news that you might have missed last week: Patents This Kat is still contemplating which IP books to put on her Christmas wish-list. Léon has recently published a book on the subject, which is being launched on 12 January 2024.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image via Pexels Another Autumn week is coming to an end, and with the falling leaves come some more interesting IP opportunities. LIOC’s Networking Drinks A networking event for patent attorneys is to be held on Thursday 2 November at the Philips Museum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Book launch: European Patent Law.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

As a plant intellectual property nerd , this Kat was delighted to get her hands on the new book Intellectual Property and the Design of Nature (Oxford University Press, 2023), edited by Jose Bellido and Brad Sherman. The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

AUGUST 19, 2021

Martina Tyreus Hufnal , Lawyer of the Year: Patent Law, Wilmington, Delaware. Kessel , Lawyer of the Year: Copyright Law, Boston. Seth Sproul , Lawyer of the Year: Litigation – IP, San Diego. Cynthia Johnson Walden , Lawyer of the Year: Trademark Law, Boston. Todd Garcia. Glitzenstein. Christopher O. Tommy Jacks.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 13, 2023

And what can be better than one dealing with intricate IP issues? We are pleased to see that Banaras Hindu University is organizing the 10th Mahamana Malaviya National Moot Court Competition, with the problem for this year’s competition surrounding patent law and incremental innovations. Quarter-Finals, Semi-Finals, and Finals.

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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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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

September has just begun and it brings a wide range of new opportunities and events in the IP field. Dr. Gerald Spindler Image: source The IPKat Team was saddened to hear about the recent passing of Professor Dr. Gerald Spindler (Faculty of Law at the Universität Göttingen), who died suddenly and unexpectedly on 11 September 2023.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 27, 2023

The firm was founded in 1999 [ sic ] and has since grown to become one of the largest IP law firms in the Midwest region of the United States. Marshall Gerstein’s practice areas include patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and related litigation, as well as IP licensing, counseling, and transactions.

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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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The IPKat

MAY 20, 2024

The Cambridge Beer Festival (taking place this week) is not only one of the UK's largest beer festivals, but also results in one of the largest, non-IP-related, concentrations of patent attorneys that can surely be found. Inspired by this phenomena, PatKat has taken a look at two very different "beer"-related patent cases.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We hope it provides more context for IP enthusiasts, especially the younger ones, and for those interested in the acronym-heavy world of SEPs. When such technologies are covered by IPRs (for example, patents) the concerned IP is called standard essential. This short piece attempts to add to the above.

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IPilogue

MARCH 3, 2022

3D Bioprinting & Canadian Patent Law. From an intellectual property law perspective, could 3D bioprinted material be patented? While some ambiguity remains regarding the patentability of bioprinted materials, there has been some success in patenting methods and techniques associated with bioprinting.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 17, 2023

Six Founders Legal® Attorneys Named to 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America by Founders Legal Distinguished Achievements in Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Technology, Corporate Governance and Compliance, and Mergers & Acquisitions Law.

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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 details and information on signing up to this event can be found here.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

Q: patent parallels: to what extent were parallels solidified in patent law already? That might distinguish it from patent facts/observable things in the world. But the IP community doesn’t have much interest in this. Tillis wanted to study having a unified IP office. Tension b/t invention and discovery.

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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. The better the car, the better the race.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2022

First, the Court noted Darley stated throughout his deposition that he dictated his opinions to counsel, counsel typed up the report, it was sent to him, and he made edits. Thus, the Court found it does not appear counsel wholly created the report based on his own opinion and asked Darley to sign off on it.

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Patently-O

APRIL 10, 2024

.” In the context of patent applications, the notice provides specific examples of how the duty of disclosure may be implicated when using AI tools. For instance: if an AI tool is used in drafting or editing a document, the party must still review its contents and ensure the paper is in accordance with the certifications being made.

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The IP Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Berkheimer argued that certain of his patent claims involve combinations that “improve[] computer functionality through the elimination of redundancy and the one-to-many editing feature, which provide[] inventive concepts.”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Professor Tanya Aplin, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London I met Margaret a couple of times (including on one occasion where we chatted about plant IP). The book is a wonderful addition to the literature on what is a complex but usually overlooked and under-analysed area of IP Law.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

The same is also detailed in the Greek Patent Law (1733/1987), Article 5(1) of which provides that: to accept that the functionality of the computer program can be protected by copyright, would amount to making it possible to monopolise ideas, to the detriment of technological progress and industrial development.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

The court noted that in previous cases, it had held that databases and communications media, including the Internet, are generic computer components; and that editing and modifying data, storing data, and sending and receiving information over a network are routine conventional functions.

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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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