Never Too Late: if you missed The IPKat last week

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Been away and wondering what you missed on IPKat last week? Well, wonder no more, since Never Too Late edition 114 is here with all of the evidence.

* BREAKING: Commission unveils new copyright package

The much-anticipated copyright package is finally ready, and Eleonora Rosati is here to explain what effect all these developments are likely to have.

* Wikimedia, EDRI, and others call for EU Copyright Package to uphold DSM fundamental principles

Alberto Bellan reports on the joint open letter from Wikimedia, EDRI and other NGOs supporting digital creators, platforms and rights to the EU Commission and the then Draft Directive. See here for Kat coverage of the final copyright package...

* Globalisation, Glocalisation, Glokatisation
Katonomist Nicola Searle explains the current era of globalisation, and the recent concerns raised by the US Chamber of Commerce in a report about its political undoing.

* Philip Morris loses investment arbitration against Uruguay's anti-tobacco legislation

Regulations in Uruguay require 80% of cigarette packs to contain health warnings, and each brand to select one variant to place on the market. As Katfriend Simon Klopschinski reports, an arbitral tribunal did not agree with tobacco company Philip Morris that the effects of these regulations harmed his business.

* 'Tis the Season - EPIP recap
Highlights from the European Policy for Intellectual Property conference in Oxford, which featured Kats Nicola Searle, Eleonora and many more...

* 20 million thanks
Many, many thanks from this klowder of Kats for all our readers and contributors' support.

* The gold standard for trade secret theft (or is that the way of the world)? Robert Fortune and Chinese tea
Neil shares the swashbuckling tale of Robert Fortune featuring adventure, disguise, both the modern versions of piracy - and all about tea.

* How to Improve Patent Quality: Conference Highlights

Mike Mireles brings us some of the best bits of the recent Santa Clara-Duke conference on Patent Quality. This is in aid of the USPTO's Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative.

* BREAKING: CJEU says that free Wi-Fi provider is not liable for third-party copyright infringements but may be required to password-protect its network to terminate infringements

As Eleonora reports, the CJEU made a landmark decision on the subject of intermediary liability and protection by safe harbours for unlawful uses of free Wi-Fi services.

* ChIPs Global Summit Reports 1 and Report 2
AmeriKat Annsley Merelle Ward accounts on her first ChIPs (Chiefs in Intellectual Property) Women in Tech, Law and Policy Global Summit. Topics were as wide ranging as news reporting, Circuit Judges' experiences and trade secrets, all with a broader focus on inclusion and diversity.

* Innovation and its Discontents - Where are we heading?
Is innovation really such a good thing? Nicola examines some of its more dystopian predicted effects.

* GS Media: IPKat/Bristows rapid response seminar

Katfriend Lucie Fortune reports on the rapid response seminar at which Eleonora was joined by Aimee Nisbet, Nicholas Saunders and Theo Savvides on the panel, which was chaired by Mark Brown. This seminar dealt in detail with the recent CJEU decision in GS Media, and the then draft copyright package.

* AIPPI Congress Reports 1 and Report 2

AmeriKat Annsley reports from the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Congress in Milan. These reports include some of the international challenges faced by IP, Katfriend David Lim's account of being a Congress first-timer, and a delicious recipe.

PREVIOUSLY ON NEVER TOO LATE

Never too late 111 [week ending on Sunday 28 August] Branding and rebranding of infidelity and Ashley Madison | Passive hosting providers and third party content | Safe harbours and the E-commerce directive | BREAKING: Leaked Commission Impact Assessment | GS Media rapid response event | Singapore Copyright reform

Never too late 110 [week ending on Sunday 21 August] | Life after Cartier - the future of blocking injunctions | Irish Court of Appeal ruling on Article 8(3) InfoSoc Directive | Wednesday Whimsies| Court fees - do you know what to pay? | Good news and bad news for bio-pharmaceutical patenting in the United States | HP? Hewlett Packard? The legacy of brands following a split

Not just any old IPKat ...

* "Most Popular Intellectual Property Law Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, December 2024.

* "Most Popular Copyright Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, December 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati has been quoted, and the IPKat has also been hyperlinked on the New York Times, April 2024.

* "Best UK Intellectual Property blog" of all time according to FeedSpot, January 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati and The IPKat are expressly recommended as sources to follow to get an "unstuffy look at IP issues" according to Legal Business, April 2023.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati received the 2022 Adepi Award.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the World Intellectual Property Review's "Influential Women in IP" of 2020.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2018.

* IPKat founder and Blogmeister Emeritus Jeremy Phillips listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Recommended by the European Patent Office as reading material for candidates for the European Qualifying Examinations, 2013.

* Listed as "Top Legal Blog" in The Times Online, March 2011.

* One of the only two non-US blogs listed in the Blawg 2010 ABA Journal 100.

* Number 1 in the 2010 Top Copyright Blog list compiled by the Copyright Litigation Blog, July 2010.

* Selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs as of 2010.

* Top Patent Blog poll 2009: 3rd out of 50 in the "Favourite Patent Blog" poll and 2nd out of 50 in the "Most-read" poll.

* ComputerWeekly IT Law and Governance Blog of the Year, 20 August 2008.

* Best of the Blogs, Times Online, 21 August 2008.

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