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

Wake me up when it's spring!

Too busy powering through the January blues to keep up with IPKat? No problem! It’s February, you made it and here is the 133rd edition of Never Too Late.

IP Summit 2016 (First Part)

Veronica reports on the 11th edition of the Pan-European Intellectual Property Summit, which took place on 1st and 2nd December at the World Customs Organization in Brussels.

When a quote becomes famous: even if it was never quite said that way

Neil considers the implications of well-known quotes that transcended their specific context and become part of a broader verbal heritage. However the quotes are often not identical to what was originally said in due to the process of transmission and public adoption.

The trademark licensing question that won't go away: the standing of a licensee to sue
Kat friend Taapsi Johri of K&S Partners, Gurgaon, India, shared this report of an Indian court decision  that found that jurisdiction of a court in a suit for infringement cannot be claimed based on the place of business of a “permitted user” of the trademark in question.

Would you like a side of Mr Justice Arnold on SPCs with your wind turbine? Teva v Gilead, Abraxis v Comptroller and Wobben v Siemens kick of 2017's patent cases

Guest post from Steven Baldwin (Allen & Overy), summarizing 2017's recent patent decisions. 

AIPPI (UK) Event: 2016's patent cases - all you really need to know

An overview of the UK Group of AIPPI annual session of reviewing the year's patent cases. Andrew Lykiardopoulos QC summarised a year’s worth of patent cases in a 90 minute presentation. 

BREAKING: CJEU rules that EU law does NOT prevent punitive damages in IP cases

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in OTK v SFP, C-367/15 answered no to the question of whether the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/28) prevent Member States from providing in their legislations the possibility to award punitive damages in IP cases? 

Supreme Court rules Act of Parliament is needed to initiate UK leaving the EU

The UK Supreme Court ruled by an 8 : 3 majority that the Government cannot initiate the process for the UK leaving the EU (the notification under Article 50 of the TEU) by itself using the Royal Prerogative, but instead an Act of Parliament is needed. 

Book review: "From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since the Birth of Print"

Neil reviews Copyright in Jewish Law by Rabbi Nachum Menashe Weisfish’s (Feldheim, Jerusalem and New York, 2010)

Applications for information on infringers can be made outside of IP infringement proceedings

Following a referral from the Czech Supreme Court in New Wave CZ v Alltoys (Case C-427/15) the CJEU explained that you do not need to start IP infringement proceedings in order to get information about an infringer under Article 8(1) IP Enforcement Directive.

The Michael Jordan case in China – to be continued

Tian looks at the most recent decision by the Supreme People’s Court of China (SPC) on the “Michael Jordan” case from the perspective of linguistics.

Plus the weekly round ups Around the IP Blogs and Sunday Surprises

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Never Too Late 131 [week ending on Sunday 15 January] | Arrow declarations can be granted: Fujifilm v AbbVie | Guest Post - China's Patent Boom | Watch out lawyers - do you own your name? 

Never Too Late 130 [week ending on Sunday 8 January] | Around the IP Blogs | Sunday Surprises | Trademark and co-branding as a badge of … did you say "location"(?) | 15 fully-funded IP PhD positions are calling for candidates | Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week! | Around the IP Blogs | Biosimilars battle in clearing the way - Fujifilm v AbbVie continues | Book review: Maintenance time and the industry development of patents

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