FIRST EIPR OF THE YEAR

The January 2005 issue of leading IP journal the European Intellectual Property Review has now been published. As ever, it contains loads of exciting content. In particular,

* Berwin Leighton Paisner assistant Toby Headdon asks whether the European unregistered design right applies retrospectively, but concludes that it doesn't;

* Stina Teilmann reviews Immanuel Kant's argument that copyright was justified in respect of literary but not artistic works;

Corona: the lemon-in-bottle issue will be coming to a head with an appeal to the ECJ

* IPKat co-master Jeremy writes about the Court of First Instance decision in Case T-399/02 Eurocermex on the non-registrability as a Community trade mark of the lemon-stuck-in-bottle top for CORONA beer.