Never too late: if you missed The IPKat last week

Summer may be more than half way over here in Europe but, as always, it’s never too late to catch up on the latest IPKat posts!

Patents

In Takeda v Roche: "Is it plausible? Is it true?", GuestKat Rose Hughes analyses the recent example of patent cases coming before the UK courts on the topic of growing clinical and economic significance of antibody-based therapeutics.

Rose Hughes also looks at the recent press release on the opinion of the Enlarged Board of Appeal in G 1/18 here.

In Beyond exclusion of pharmaceutical products from patentable subject matter as a solution to limited access to medicines in Africa. Africa Correspondent Kat Chijioke Okorie looks at the flexibility available from the TRIPS Agreement and seeing how they can be adapted to suit the socio-economic realities of different countries.

Is the sun too much and you're
staying in the shade like this Kat?

Copyright

Mathilde Pavis looks at the recent of launch of the website ‘Cartography and Copyright’, by Professor Isabella Alexander from University Technology Sydney here.

GuestKat Ieva Giedrimaite looks at whether Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince Rogers Nelson (best known as Prince), is considered as fair use in Warhol v Goldsmith: fairness of use by iconic artwork adjudicated in New York.

In English High Court raises eyebrows over request to disclose ISP customer data, GuestKat Alex Woolgar looks at an application made against Virgin Media to disclose the personal details of broadband subscribers identified by their IP address to have downloaded copyright films.

Mathilde Pavis also comments on the less (compared to the DSM Directive) reported Regulation 2019/1150 in The EU Regulation on fairness in the platform economy is a let down for intellectual property.

Kat friend Fredy Sánchez Merino provides a succinct round-up of IP matters in the Latin America region in Vallenato and Raicilla, take me south.

Following the CJEU’s ruling last year, the German Federal Court of Justice handed down its final decision regarding a case revolving around a picture of Cordoba in Spain. Peter Ling analyses this in Copyright Infringement Confirmed, but No Damages for "Cordoba" Photographer.

This Kat is enjoying the sun in Reunion Island while he can

In a flurry of breaking news from the CJEU (in one day nonetheless!), Kat Eleonora Rosati looks at these rulings considering questions: whether use of a protected work for the reporting of current events requires authorisation; whether non-transformative sampling can infringe a phonogram producer’s right and whether German free use is compatible with EU law; and whether the freedom of information and the press can or cannot justify a derogation from the rights of copyright holders beyond allowed exceptions and limitations. Each post can be found here, here, and here respectively.

Trade marks

The question of whether trade mark law, and in particular the five-year grace period to commence “genuine use” (Art. 18(1) EUTMR), be adapted to account for the time lost waiting for the marketing authorization? Is looked at by GuestKat Peter Ling in his post "BOSWELAN" - No Special Treatment for Medicinal Product Trade Marks.

GuestKat Nedim Malovic breaks down the recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union in CJEU dismisses Red Bull’s appeal concerning its colour combination marks.

In The trademark question that never stops giving: when is there a material difference between the registered form and the form of actual use? Kat friend Shawn Poon tackles that question in a recent decision from Singapore.

Marriot Worldwide Corp. recently opposed Associazione Calcio Milan SpA’s (AC Milan) application to register their figurative mark (below) in Class 43. Asia Correspondent Kat, Tian Lu, looks at the EU General Court’s recent ruling in her post Turning the AC off as no likelihood of confusion is found: AC Milan survives AC Marriott opposition.

The mark AC Milan sought to register

Events

GuestKat Mathilde Pavis covers the “Intellectual Property and the Visual” ISHTIP 2019 event over 2 posts here and here respectively.

Rose Hughes also covers the CIPA seminar on the revised Rules of the Procedure of the Board of Appeal, which was held in London late July.

Book Reviews

Book Review Kat – Hayleigh Bosher delves into Justin Koo’s The Right of Communication to the Public in EU Copyright Law. She also reviews The Sir Hugh Laddie Lectures: The First Ten Years, which are a collection of the first decade events in the Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture series. Don’t forget IPKat readers can enjoy a 15% discount, using the code SHLL15 by placing an order before 1st September 2019!

Misc

Kat Annsley Merelle Ward dedicates a touching obituary for the late Sir Henry Carr QC, where colleagues share their memories of Mr Justice Carr.

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