Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat Last Week!

The Summer is almost over but do not be sad! The 161st edition of Never Too Late is out to cheer you up!

No place for eggs in this basket

Before its usual summer pause, the Italian Supreme Court issues groundbreaking decision on punitive damages, opening the door for IP claims, giving us food for thought. Kat friend Roberto Jacchia reports on the scoop: this is in fact the first time that the Supreme Court rules in favour of these type of damages.

InternKat Verónica brought us with part two of her own TILTing Perspectives 2017, focussing on digital exhaustion and music-file sharing. The first part, discussing online enforcement and black box tinkering, can be found here.

With Freedom of panorama in Portugal: content and scope of the exception, Kat Eleonora is bringing us on a journey to discover more on this copyright exception. After discovering more about Italy, now Carlos Madureira and David Serras Pereira from the Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores tell us all about the Portuguese system.

Closing with some more food for thought, literally, When "mayo" is not mayonnaise, yet still is mayonnaise: All a matter of the label? Kat Neil investigates on a complaint raised by Unilever against Hampton Creek, a food company holder of the trade mark JUST MAYO, an eggless vegetable spread that really, is not mayo at all.

Weekly Roundups: Friday Fantasies

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Never Too Late 160 [week ending Sunday 13 August] Scottish court “vaporized” trade mark invalidity appeal | Battle of the free trade mark databases – Global Brand Database versus TMview | An Improved Improver? - Part 3. | Netflix weather report: sunny today, possibility of rain clouds tomorrow? | Roger in troubled Waters | Friday Fantasies

Never Too Late 159 [week ending Sunday 6 August] Cross-undertaking in damages - Napp Pharmaceuticals v Sandoz Limited | In memoriam of June Foray: the greatest screen voice whom you probably never heard of, but likely heard | UK Supreme Court holds that grey market sales can be criminal offence | New administrative notice-and-takedown procedure in Greece | Are you XKING kidding me? Making sense of trade mark conflict in the EUTM system | The challenge of protecting a database without a sui generis right, this time from Singapore | France: costs of blocking injunctions to be borne by internet intermediaries | INTA Trademark Administrators and Practitioners Meeting--early bird registration ends August 4th | TILTing Perspectives 2017 (First Part: Online Enforcement and Black Box Tinkering) | France: 13 million in damages awarded for linking to downloadable copyright works | Monday Miscellany, Sunday Surprises

Never Too Late 158 [week ending Sunday 30 July] The right of communication to the public ... in a chart I From Coca-Cola Zero to Coca-Cola Zero Sugar: big deal or no deal? I Brexit roundtable for brand owners in the financial services industry I CREATe Summer Summit 2017: Open Science, Open Culture & the Global South (and everything between) I BREAKING: BGH asks CJEU what a 'quotation' is: only unaltered reproductions or also something else? I AG Wahl says that, at certain conditions, suppliers of luxury goods may prohibit retailers from selling on third-party online platforms I Book Review: Common Innovation I EPO takes an ‘about turn’ on the patentability of products obtained by essentially biological processes I More on broccoli, tomatoes, and the patentability of a plant or animal obtained by means of an essentially biological process I Copyright protection of minimalist furniture design I Geographical Indications: News from the UK and New Zealand I French Supreme Court : End of the trade mark dispute over 'Cheval Blanc' I Event Report: The European Intellectual Property Teacher's Network 10th Anniversary Conference I Around the IP Blogs

Never Too Late 157 [week ending Sunday 23 July] Sky v SkyKick - no CJEU reference re removal of own name defence to EUTMs | An improved improver? UK Supreme Court moves towards a UK Doctrine of Equivalents in Lilly pemetrexed battle? | An improved Improver? Part 2 | It may be use, but is it trade mark use? | The protection of TV formats: an Italian mock trial | What can the possible implications of the CJEU Pirate Bay decision be? A new paper | In memoriam of Kenneth Jay Lane: "My designs are all original"; "original from someone" | French Commercial Tribunal: clarity in paternity is key