Monday miscellany

Last chance  ... Time is running out for readers who wish
* to register for this Thursday's IP and Retail Conference 2014, held at the Holborn Bars De Vere, London (details here)
* to let the organisers know if you can't attend the Blaca/IPKat seminar on Wednesday afternoon on "Are human rights moral rights?" (details here), so that we can make sure that your place can be given to someone on the reserve list.
* to comment on Case C-661/13 Astellas Pharma, a really important reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union on the scope of the Bolar Exemption from patent infringement and the conducting of research.

Different but oh, so similar ...
Lookalike event -- but it's not a copy. The Kats' friends at the Competition Law Association have another event coming up: it's called "Lookalikes - an unfair practice and unfair competition?" No, it's not a lookalike version of the recent JIPLP/GRUR Int event on a similar subject, but it does reflect the high level of interest which is currently being shown in this important topic.  Speakers are our good friends Johanna Gibson & John Noble. The date is Thursday, 13 March 2014, 6pm at the London office of Withers Worldwide LLP. You can get the details here.


" ... and then the witness
told the judge this ..."
Post-trial secrecy of evidence in patent proceedings.  Smith & Nephew v Convatec patent litigation does seem to occur with some frequency on this weblog, among other places.  For example (in chronological order) here, here, here, here, here, here and here.  At the end of January this year, the parties were back in court again, here, to resolve an important bit of tidying up after the event:  how far should an order that is intended to preserve the confidentiality of evidence submitted in the course of the proceedings be allowed to extent once those proceedings are concluded.  Mr Justice Birss gives clear guidance, separating out that evidence that genuinely casts light on a party's technical operations and commercial aspirations from that which does not. There's a handy note on PatLit here.
Monday miscellany Monday miscellany Reviewed by Jeremy on Monday, February 10, 2014 Rating: 5

No comments:

All comments must be moderated by a member of the IPKat team before they appear on the blog. Comments will not be allowed if the contravene the IPKat policy that readers' comments should not be obscene or defamatory; they should not consist of ad hominem attacks on members of the blog team or other comment-posters and they should make a constructive contribution to the discussion of the post on which they purport to comment.

It is also the IPKat policy that comments should not be made completely anonymously, and users should use a consistent name or pseudonym (which should not itself be defamatory or obscene, or that of another real person), either in the "identity" field, or at the beginning of the comment. Current practice is to, however, allow a limited number of comments that contravene this policy, provided that the comment has a high degree of relevance and the comment chain does not become too difficult to follow.

Learn more here: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/p/want-to-complain.html

Powered by Blogger.