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Patents
The UPC Preparatory Committee has
reacted with enthusiasm to the approval in the German Bundestag of the
ratification legislation for the Unified Patent Court Agreement. Kluwer
Patent Blog reported on this new development.
In his 1913 essay Totem und
Taboo, Freud defined taboo as a prohibition related to what is considered
sacred or impure. The famous psychoanalyst insists on the irrationality of the
phenomenon. Thus, compulsory licensing, which is often seen as an impure
danger, seems to be a kind of taboo for intellectual property specialists. But
the numerous research studies related to COVID-19 and the need to be ready for an eventual health crisis of this type in the future invite us to try to
(re)examine the question rationally: what is the real nature of the compulsory
license? Kluwer
Patent Blog re(examined) this question.
Trade marks
Misleading invoices are already warned
about on the EUIPO website. However, other recent activities have caused confusion
and concern for some brand owners. This is the receipt of unsolicited offers to
renew trade marks at inflated prices, which are being sent by an unregulated
entity that effectively implies it has an official capacity for sending it. Marques warned
about these unsolicited trade mark renewals.
It is not common that local
Indian companies sue multinationals for infringement in India – and win.
However, recently that happened in the case of Parle Agro Pvt. Ltd. v Walmart
India Pvt. Ltd. and Ors. in which Parle Agro Pvt. Ltd. sued Walmart India
Pvt. Ltd. and Ors. for violating its trademark/trade-dress when it launched a
deceptively similar packaging and sold an apple-flavoured drink called “Fizzy
Apple”. Kluwer
Trademark Blog reported on the case.
Copyright
In the last few months of 2020
there have been further developments in Italy with regards to private and
administrative enforcement against illicit distribution of copyright content
over the internet. Kluwer
Copyright Blog reported on these developments.
The legislative agenda of the
past two decades – both in Europe and further afield – has been about adapting
copyright to the requirements of the information society. The administrative
means to make use of those new opportunities by licensing at the right source
and allocating revenues to the right recipients, in a world of interactive and
intertwined content, have not been harmonised at the same pace. In the copyright
industries of the 21st century, metadata is the grease required to make the
engine of copyright run smoothly and powerfully for the benefit of creators,
copyright industries, and users alike. Kluwer
Copyright Blog informed us of why metadata matters for the future of copyright.
Other: Artificial Intelligence
Promising results for the
Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines have been the most exciting COVID-19
innovation news in the past few weeks. But while vaccines are a crucial step
toward controlling this virus, it is important not to overlook the many other
technological developments spurred by the pandemic. Written
Description explored how the COVID-19 pandemic is proving a fertile
ground for the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine.
Reviewed by Magdaleen Jooste
on
Sunday, December 06, 2020
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