Never too late: if you missed the IPKat last week

With the beginning of the new year, here’s also the first Never Too Late feature of 2016, now on its 79^th edition, as always lovingly penned by our friend and colleague Alberto Bellan.

Here’s what happened last week on this very blog:

 * The politics of IP conferences in India

Long time Katfriend and sometime blogger Prashant Reddy discusses IP conferences focused upon India. Clashes between NGOs and industry-founded initiatives are not being beneficial to a plural debate, he says.

* Australia's big win in Philip Morris plain packaging arbitration

Jin Ooi (Allen & Overy) analyses the latest development concerning Australia’s tobacco plain packaging legislation, which resulted in a "win" for the Australian government against Philip Morris Asia Limited.

* Looking back over this GreeKat shoulder… the last bit: “In transit” to 2016

EU’s days as “a logistical hub” for counterfeiters may be over, writes Nikos [on the topic, see the IPKat posts here and here].

* Patent amendments not allowed during court proceedngs, rules Malaysia's highest court

Katfriend NG Kim Poh from Kuala Lumpur-based firm Shook Lin & Bok reports on a landmark patent validity and infringement decision of the Federal Court of Malaysia (SKB Shutters Manufacturing Sdn. Bhd v Seng Kong Shutter Industries Sdn. Bhd. & Anor), in which otherwise independently valid dependent claims suffered a terrible fate.

* Congratulations, Sir Nicholas Forwood!

2015 New Years Honours revealed the name of at least one character in the field of IP law - that of The Hon Judge Nicholas Forwood QC  - who has been honoured with a Knight Bachelor in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List for services to European justice. Congrats from then IPKat!

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PREVIOUSLY, ON NEVER TOO LATE

Never too late 78  [week ending on Sunday 27 December] – Zer-sum claim and lookalike products | 2015 Copyright Awards | Santa Claus and Section 52 | Jani writes on Dallas Buyers Club LLC v iiNet Limited | IP Hairballs |  Actavis v Eli Lilly | Power outage at USPTO | Santa's GC resigns | Pet rock and IP.

Never too late 77 [week ending on Sunday 20 December] – GC on 5-stripe shoe mark | EPO BoA in T 942/12 on liability and renewal practice management for European patent attorneys | Magnesium Elektron v Molycorp, ie how to serve patent infringement proceedings on a Chinese company | EU Trade Mark reform adopted | WIPO IP indicators | Provisional agreement on EU Trade Secrets Directive | Battistelli’s proposal rejected? | “Je Suis” trade marks | Branding and 3D printing.

Never too late 76 [week ending on Sunday 13 December] – The Making of the TRIPS Agreement | German Balsamico?! | Trade secrets in the US | European Copyright Society | Merpel in Eponia | Henry Hadaway Organisation v Pickwick Group Limited and Ors | CJEU activism on copyright | EU Commission unveils future copyright reform path | Music publishing and copyright | Dreaming of copyright, new eLAW event | Trade mark right exhaustion | VW trade mark disaster | Linking and copyright | elite media takes IP wrong. 

Never too late 75 [week ending on Sunday 6 December] –  BHG on blocking injunctions | IP in Universities | Sweden on blocking injunctions | Canadian musings on patents | US Senate and trade secret reform | Chinese IP Courts | G1/14 referral and Article 108 EPC | PACE procedure (Procedure for Accelerated Conduct of Examination) ant the EPO | Greekat and trade mark partenalism | EPO Boards of Appeal tell AC: we were never consulted | What hacker means.