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"Mozart and Other Pirates"

Guest Kat Stephen reports on an event at UCL organised by the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL). The theme was how composers in the time of Mozart made use of each other's material at a time before copyright law, compared with the modern position.

TILTing Perspectives 2017 report (1): The healthcare session

Tian reports on the 5th bi-annual TILTing Perspectives conference held at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. This, the first of two posts, focused on the healthcare sessions at the conference, including topics such as robot doctors and algorithm therapists; robotic cognitive therapeutic researchers and the law; and, expert systems and medical malpractice: reframing the notion of negligence.

TILTing Perspectives 2017 report (2): The IP session and the Key Note

This is the second of two posts on the TILTing Perspectives conference which reported on the panel discussions on new IP perspectives; the collective management of copyright; and, copyright law making in the EU. As well as the key note speech from Professor John M. Golden.

Application to amend nappy patent not so watertight - IPEC holds nappy patent invalid for added matter and lack of clarity

New Kat friend, Robyn Trigg (A&O) reports on HHJ Hacon’s judgment in Curt G. Joa, Inc. v Fameccanica Data SpA [2017] EWHC 1251 (IPEC), particularly considering the new trend to include added matter in the pleading point of patent cases.

SugarHero and the Snow Globe Cupcakes - Copyright and Food Videos

Mathilde lets us know about the recent filing of a copyright infringement claim by internet chef Elizabeth LaBau (known as SugarHero) against Television Food Network, relating to LaBau's cooking video of her flagship recipe “Snow Globe Cupcakes”.

Mr Justice Birss introduces the brand new FRAND Injunction in Unwired Planet v Huawei

AmeriKat looks at the newly anointed FRAND injunction from the recent case of Unwired Planet v Huawei FRAND. Following Huawei’s failure to comply with the terms of the worldwide licence (at the time of the final judgment), a separate hearing was held at which the injunction was granted. This is contrary to the normal position under English law that once final relief is granted, parties are not entitled to come back to court. However, in recognising the special nature of a FRAND undertaking, the FRAND injunction is more flexible to allow parties to come back to court at the expiry of the licence.

French Counseil d'État invalidates decrees implementing law on out-of-commerce works

In a reference for a preliminary ruling, the French Council of State asked the CJEU to clarify the compatibility of the 2012 French law on the digital exploitation of out-of-print 20th century books with the InfoSoc Directive. The CJEU stated that the system of the InfoSoc Directive is one of broad and preventative rights. Although national initiatives on out-of-commerce works are not against the directive per se, the Court clarified that nonetheless authors, not collecting societies that do not have any direct mandate from them, must consent to third-party uses of their works.

A Tight Squeeze: Matters of Comity and Justiciability

In the case of Chugai Pharmaceutical v UCB [2017] EWHC 1216 (Pat) the Japanese pharmaceutical company Chugai applied for a declaration that it did not have to continue paying royalties to UCB under a patent licence. The licence was originally for a portfolio of patents relating to an antibody known as tocilizumab of which all but one (the 771 Patent) had expired. Some of its tocilizumab products are manufactured and sold in the USA, so Chugai argued that those products fall outside the scope of the claims of the 771 Patent, meaning that it would no longer have to pay for them.

Life as an IP Lawyer: Milan

Elena Varese at DLA Piper in Milan, Italy dispels some notions about Italian court delays, the joys of being an expert in various fields and wine tasting with Advocate General Cruz Villalón.

AIPPI/AIPLA Event: Copyright in a digital age - US and UK perspectives

AIPPI/AIPLA event on 15 June 2017 at Bird & Bird for a discussion on copyright law in the digital age with a particular focus on exhaustion of rights and the development of digital marketplaces for pre-owned digital copies.

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