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Trade marks

GuestKat Nedim Malovic takes a look at a decision of EUIPO first Board of Appeal concerning the relevant public’s perception of the polysemic term SPA, which, on the one hand, is the designation of the Belgian town Spa, where there is also a health spa, well-known to the Belgian public; on the other hand, it is also the common name that designates a spa-facility (a hydrotherapy facility).

GuestKat Ieva Giedrimaite writes about the Guns N' Roses' complaint for unauthorized use of their trade mark for beers.

Rosie Burbidge reports on IPSoc event and the talk from Simon Malynicz QC, SkyKick's leading counsel.

Patents

GuestKat Rose Hughes reports on a recent English High Court case (Emson v Hozelock), in which Mr Justice Nugee, in a follow-up to the classic UK case Windsurfing, considered the issue of when a disclosure may be considered public.

Katfriend, Léon Dijkman, reports on the decision in Philips v ASUS from the Dutch Court of Appeal - the first Dutch decision after Huawei v ZTE dealing with a FRAND-defence.

Alex Woolgar takes a look at Ablynx NV and Anor v VHsquared Limited and Ors [2019] EWHC 792 (Pat), a useful judgment concerning the application of the Brussels I Regulation to patent disputes where there is also a purported choice of jurisdiction by contract.

Copyright

Hayleigh Bosher takes a look at a recent dispute before Judge Hacon in the IntellectualProperty Enterprise Court regarding Eminem's first album. Still Hayleigh writes about Pop star Ariana Grande being sued for posting two photographs of herself on her Instagram page.

Kat Eleonora Rosati reports on the DSM directive's publication on the Official Journal of the European Union: it is now Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC.

Still Eleonora writes about an error in the Italian translation of the directive spotted by Valentina Borgese, Carmine Di Benedetto, Daniele Cerulla and Daniele Fabris.

IPR Carousel

Kat friend Matthieu Dhenne discusses the Paris Court of Appeal's decision in Conversant v LG which provides an interesting discussion on essentiality and the application of the new French Trade Secrets Act.

GuestKat Peter Ling discusses the Opinion of AG Pitruzzella in case C-688/17 concerning the intriguing question of whether a “launch at risk” (i.e. the commercialization of a product without first suing for cancellation of any relevant patents prior to market entry) should exclude any compensation in the event that an IP right is wrongly issued.

Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo writes about the conference TILTing perspectives. The theme of this year's conference is ‘Regulating a world in transition’.

Mathilde Pavis reviews Public rights – Copyright’s Public Domains by Graham Greenleaf and David Lindsay.

Africa Correspondent Chijioke Okorie reports on The Agreement on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) with a specific focus on the Protocol on Intellectual Property.

Rosie Burbidge reports on the Invista v Botes saga.

Ruth Soetendorp reviews Intellectual Property, Finance and Corporate Governance, by Janice Denoncourt.

Kat Eleonora Rosati writes about the Cambridge summer school devoted to all things IP.

 

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