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Never Too late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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The Board rejected the approach of requiring a "credible" technical effect of the claimed use for novelty. Readers can respond to the consultation with their views on these topics, before 11:59am on 31 October 2023.

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The Bizarre Copyright Battle Over Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Plagiarism Today

The word and the song that it titles has remained a part of our lexicon for nearly sixty years and, despite being a famous tongue-twister (so much so, it was featured in a recent Mental Floss episode on the topic ), has been on the tongues of generations. However, in 1965, there was a very different conversation about the song.

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Patents & the Magical World of Psychedelics

IPilogue

Although the Canadian legalization of psilocybin, similar to cannabis, is an interesting and contentious topic, this article intends to highlight the potential patentability of psilocybin and its derivatives, as well as the current trends in the field. Patenting Psychedelics: Novelty and Non-Obviousness.

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European Parliament approves Regulation for Non-Agri Geographical Indications

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One of the Regulation’s main novelties is that the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) will be responsible for the Union phase of the examination. The “in particular” part will surely open way for further preliminary rulings on the topic. GI applications from third countries are also submitted directly (art.

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Wednesday Whimsies

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12 June 2024: How are novelty and inventive step to be assessed and should the patent claim be construed first? 20 June 2024: Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture On the topic of lectures, there is also the Annual Sir Hugh Laddie one to look forward to. For further information and to register, click here.

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Insights from the Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings

IPilogue

I attended the Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings (“GOTTMs”) hosted by Leiden University on April 5, 2022. He also discussed the novelty of owning or creating an NFT, rights acquired by purchase, and open NFT trade sources like Mintable , Opensea , and Cryptokitties. Photo by Milad Fakurian ( Unsplash ). SuperRare).

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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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Patents SpecialKat Rose Hughes reported and commented on two Board of Appeal decisions: · T-0043/18 , which concerns the European Patent Office’s approach to novelty for purity of compound inventions (see here ). · Katfriend Marianna Ryan has written here on the topical issue of how DAOs are to be treated and what IP issues come with them.