The IPKat

DECEMBER 24, 2022

As a busy year comes, take the time to settle down with your favourite feline friend, a mince pie and the annual IPKat EPO Boards of Appeal roundup. The big stories of the year were, of course, the legality of mandatory ViCo oral proceedings and description amendments. IPKat has also sifted through the 100s of Boards of Appeal decisions published in 2022, to bring you the most eye-catching and relevant to ongoing EPO practice.

Invention 76

Invention Inventor Patent Publishing 76

Patently-O

DECEMBER 24, 2022

by Chris Holman. A branded drug manufacturer can sometimes extend its exclusive right to market a drug by patenting a method of using the drug and successfully suing a potential generic competitor for infringement based on the premise that an instruction or warning appearing on the generic product’s label will induce doctors and/or patients to infringe the patent.

Patent 60

Patent Marketing Marketing Invention 60

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Christmas memories are usually filled with Santa Claus, be it him being featured in Christmas movie, or a graphical depiction of him being used on various products ranging from clothes, cake boxes, packaging of various products etc. However, the question which arises, if the character of Santa Claus is so widely used and to gain commercially benefits by attracting consumers, then who owns it and how is the intellectual property rights of the proprietor protected.

IP 52

IP Artistic Work Intellectual Property Branding 52

TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Since 2018 the European Commission has published an annual ‘Piracy Watch List’ detailing numerous piracy threats. Based on rightsholder input, sites and services considered particularly troublesome are publicly named to raise awareness, focus minds, and shape policy to meet the challenges ahead. The USTR publishes a similar annual report that operates along broadly the same lines and shares similar goals.

Marketing 80

Marketing Marketing Reporting Branding 80

Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

Technology

Likelihood of Confusion

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Techcrunch: I’d think this was a joke, except for the USPTO entry. Fark has lodged a trademark application for the term “Not Safe For Work.” (Via Ed.) One grows fatigued. The post Not Safe For Witlessness appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

Trademark 52

Trademark 52