The IPKat Team was
extremely saddened to hear about the concerning developments last week and
wishes to stand in solidarity with all those who are suffering at this time. The
news from The IPKat was as follows:
Copyright
The US Copyright Office (the Review Board) held
that a work entirely created by a machine cannot be protected by copyright. PermaKat Eleonora Rosati provided a useful
background and comments on this recent decision here.
Katfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, Hannie Kirk
and Philip Henszelman brought us a review of an exciting decision of the Danish High
Court. The case concerned whether
unauthorized reproduction of the famous statue “the Little Mermaid” was
permissible due to a non-statutory exception for caricature or parody or
because of freedom of expression.
Trade Marks
GuestKat Becky Knott commented on a recent decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office, whereby a
revocation application was rejected because the proprietor had put its
registration to genuine use. The
decision is particularly interesting in light of low sales and the fact that
use of the mark by the proprietors are different from the logo as registered.
Patents
The World Intellectual Property Office has
recently billed the entry into force of the new sequence listing requirement
for the DNA, RNA and protein sequences (ST. 26) from 1 July 2022 onwards. GuestKat Rose Hughes provided further background on this.
Others
KatFriends may be aware of the recent dispute
over American podcaster Joe Rogan’s podcasts on Spotify, where Neil Young
(Canadian-American singer, musician and songwriter), followed by Joni Mitchell
(Canadian singer, songwriter and painter), alleged that some of Rogan’s podcast
were spreading misinformation about Covid-19.
In light of this, Neil and Joni demanded Spotify to remove their music
from the platform. PermaKat Neil Wilkof
provided some insight into this.