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Patents
In Purity can be unconventional, a new position for the EPO boards of appeal (T 1085/13), GuestKat Rose Hughes takes a look at a recent decision by the EPO Technical Boards of Appeal which departs from previous boards on how the novelty of the increased purity of a known compound is to be assessed. Rose also discusses the technical board of appeal’s decision following the decision T-1063/18 and concerning the power of the EPO’s Administrative Council to amend the EPC using the Rules. Finally, Rose reports on a new question of double-patenting being referred to the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA).
Michael Burdon shares his opinion about the role of the English courts in FRAND determinations in the absence of a dispute resolution mechanism in SSOs.

Trade marks
Peter Ling discusses a recent decision rendered by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in relation to registration of the trade mark “BOOKING.COM". He also analyzes when adding a generic TLD to a generic word makes the sign non-generic. Katfriend Nicoletta Epaminonda takes a loot at the Cypriot transposition of the Trade Mark Directive 2015/2436 and reflects on what the future might hold for trade marks in this Member State.
Former GuestKat Mirko Brüß reports on the Hamburg Court decision concerning Geographical Indication and Whisky after the ruling regarding the referred preliminary question of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Copyright
Tobias Lutzi and John Weitzmann analyze, in two different posts, the recent judgment of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) concerning protection of digitized versions of public domain image. (Digitized images of works in the public domain: what rights vest in them? Analysis of the recent BGH Reiss-Engelhorn judgment - Part 1 and Part 2)
Kat Eleonora Rosati reports on the Rome Court of First Instance’s decision which for the first time under Italian law has found a platform (Facebook) to be liable for hosting third-party links to unlicensed content.
Copyright trolling: Abusive litigation based on a GPL compliance discusses the monetary settlement reached outside the court in case of copyright trolling in Germany

Book review
Asia Correspondent Tian Lu reviews Dr. Kristie Thomas’s “Assessing Intellectual Property Compliance in Contemporary China”

Events
Annual Cambridge CIPIL Conference on mens rea in IP.

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