Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

We are happy to have our own Kats and Katfriends contribute to the IPKat last week!  Let’s take a look at those posts in case you missed them.

Patents

 

GuestKat Rose Hughes provided a review of the US Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit decision in Juno v Kite.  The decision is consistent with recent case law whereby functional antibody claims have increasingly failed to satisfy the strict “written description” sufficiency requirement.

 

Unfair Competition

 

Brand owners may be particularly interested in GuestKat Tian Lu’s report on Chanel’s successful unfair competition case in China.  The infringing product in this instant case was a perfume product highly similar to Chanel’s classic N°5 perfume.

 

Other

 

As many of you are likely to be aware, France took over the Presidency of the Counsel of the European Union on 1 January 2022.  GuestKat Anastasiia Kyrylenko provided an overview of France’s plan to push design, Geographical Indications, the Unified Patent Court and safe harbour reform during its presidency. 

 

Katfriend Julia Hugendubel shared with us recent developments concerning tokenization of IP rights to manage IP.

 

Katfriend Adam Ernette provided a Conference Report on the International IP Practice Seminar organized and virtually hosted by University of Illinois Chicago School of Law’s Centre for IP back in October 2021. 

 

Katfriend Rosie Burbidge provided a book review of the Research Handbook on Design Law published by Edward Elgar in 2021.