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

Missed out on the IPKat a couple of weeks ago? No problem at all, the 167^th edition of Never Too Late is here!

Is the German press publishers' right lawful? More details on the CJEU reference. Kat Eleonora freshens up our memory of the case brought up by the the Landgericht Berlin as the questions referred to the CJEU became available on the Curia website.

Guest Kat Rosie drives us through a design infringement and jurisdictional dispute between Nintendo and BigBen, maker of remote controls and accessories compatible with Nintendo devices. The full story on Community registered designs & the CJEU - Nintendo v Big Ben.

Playing is not infringing, right?

Is that time of the year again when you start wondering how cold it actually is as opposed to how many degrees there are outside. Thanks to Kat Neil we discover more on this topic in In memoriam Maurice Bluestein: "Baby--it's cold outside"; the story and nomenclature of the Wind Chill Index.

Book Review: The Fundamental Right to Data Protection. Kat Nicola explored the world of data protection and counter-terrorism surveillance thanks to the book written by Ms. Maria Tzanou, Bloomsbury Publishing.

In light of the recent EU Commission paper, Dr. Ilanah Simon Fhima in Brexit: The IP Position Paper and trade marks discusses what could be the future for the comparable protection for trade marks and for the rules of exhaustion envisaged in the paper.

Remaining on the subject, Darren Meale, comes back with an update on Brexit (his previous contributions can be found here and here) in Brexit and Brands: 536 days and counting – what is the UK going to do?

Weekly roundups. Sunday Surprises

Image credits: JY-Flickr

PREVIOUSLY ON NEVER TOO LATE

Never Too Late 166 [week ending Sunday 1 October] Book Review: What if we could reimagine copyright? | Italian Supreme Court confirms availability of copyright protection to TV formats | EU certification mark: It's coming your way on October 1st | Pemetrexed pops up in Milan | Medical data in a twist - Technomed v Bluecrest | Proposed EMA relocation: staff survey update | Event: The impact of Brexit on the UK copyright regime | Waiting for the approval of the EU Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market | 'TOBBIA' EU trade mark declared invalid for conflict with 'PEPPA PIG' EU trade mark

Never Too Late 165 [week ending Sunday 24 September] German Federal Court of Justice rules that GS Media presumption of knowledge does not apply to Google Images| Life as an IP Lawyer: Washington, D.C.| Furie-ous creator of Pepe the Frog determined to use copyright to get his green creation back | Book Review: Marketing and Advertising Law in a Process of Harmonisation | Special interview with the Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore on new one billion dollar innovation fund (and more) | Conference Report: Zurich IP Retreat 2017 - Patents and Hindsight (Part I and II) | Does Allergan's Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe transactional move "rip off consumers"?

Never Too Late 164 [week ending Sunday 17 September] Joint JIPLP-GRUR event: A Distinctive Mess? Current Trade Mark Law and Practice in the EU and UK | 6th Global Forum on Intellectual Property: Ideas to Assets | Reality TV stars: performers? ...employees?... Neither? | Monkey Selfie Dispute| The Selfie Monkey case: the end?,|Schweppes = Schweppes - AG Opinion in parallel goods dispute. | The Israel Supreme Court adopts the conceptual separability test of the US Copyright Office, rejecting the Star Athletica standard| Maradona sues Dolce&Gabbana over 2016 'MARADONA' jersey|

Never Too Late 163 [week ending Sunday 3 September] Coase (with help from Grossman and Hart), transaction costs and IP | UPDATE: Complainant against UPC ratification in Germany confirmed as Ingve Stjerna | Brexit: European Commission publishes guiding principles on Intellectual Property | Neptune’s kitchen designs infringed? No, the DeVOL is in the detail | AG Szpunar advises CJEU on cloud-based recording and private copying exception | Br*x*t and Brands – 568 days and counting – the EU’s position | 6th Global Forum on Intellectual Property: Ideas to Assets (part 1) | Mark your calendars: Design Law Reform Conference in Singapore! | Friday Fantasies | Around the IP Blogs