Happy Sunday Kat
Friends! In this cold day the IPKat has stopped playing with
the boules just put up on the Christmas tree and scouted the web for some
interesting IP news: enjoy!
The Black Friday frenzy
and rampant market phenomenon has taken on the wold little by little and now
marks the start of the Christmas shopping season well beyond the US. Oliver Löffel, in Germany:
The Black Friday Trademark Battle (Kluwer Trademark Blog), recounts how this year the
event has been surrounded by some trade mark drama.
For a nice summary of
some the most interesting copyright news, read out Ben's COPYCAT on the 1709 Blog. In the post a Canadian decision to stop online
infringement is mentioned. On the same wavelength Micheal Geist of
the homonymous blog discusses how Music
Canada Data Confirms Huge Increase in Streaming Revenues and Sharp
Decline of Music Listening from Pirated Sources.
New Year, New Nice!
Brigit Clark of the Marques Blog reminds that soon the 2018
version of the eleventh edition of the Nice Classification will
be published on the WIPO website. Stay tuned!
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Fresh from the CJEE VCAST
judgment (Kat Eleonora's report here), it is interesting to read Mike Mireles' (IP finance Blog) discussion
on a similar issue occurring on the other side of the Atlantic in
Tickbox
TV: Concerns for Content Owners, Cable, and Silicon Valley.
Micheal Hirsch of the
Written Description Blog talks Orange Book and pharmaceutical patents
in Data
for the Evergreening Debate.
Is the current copyright
system working in the interests of authors? In Report:
CREATe public Lecture by Rebecca Giblin: Taking seriously the
author’s interest in copyright, Ally Farnhill of the CREATe
blog discusses Professor's Giblin proposals for
change.
COMMUNICATION
OF WORKS TO THE PUBLIC VIA HYPERLINKS (1st APPLICATION OF ECJ’S “GS
MEDIA” JURISPRUDENCE IN Greece) a report by Theodorus Chiou of
Iprights.gr.
#trademark...? Maria
Luigia Franceschelli of IP lens dissects the subject whether May
#hashtags safely rely on trademark protection? #iloveIP.
Already worried for the
unmitigated 2020 Advent calendar disaster when the first Sunday of
Advent is not falling in December? Do not to scuff your whiskers
about it, there is already a pending patent to the rescue: the Advent
calendar with MORE than 24 surprise-holding little windows - reported
by the invention
de la semaine of the European Patent Case Law Blog.
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