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

Here is what you missed from the IPKat last week. 

Patents

Rose Hughes commented on the recent UK decision Astellas v Teva [2023] EWHC 2571 (Pat), in which the Court considered sufficiency, inventive step and infringement of the formulation patent, and highlighted how the decision is interesting for the consideration of the potential benefits and pitfalls of functional claim language. 

Rose Hughes discussed the recently proposed changes in the admission requirements for the European Patent attorney qualifying examinations, by considering also the related “strongly worded response” by CIPA.

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Katfriend Mindia Davitadze commented on the fact that Georgia recently became the 5th validating state to the European Patents Organisation by signing the Validation Agreement and promising to bolster the protection of intellectual property rights within the industrial sector.

Copyright

Marcel Pemsel addressed the question related to whether a photographer can waive the exercise of their moral rights, including the right of attribution, in the general terms and conditions of a microstock portal under German Law. 

Eleonora Rosati commented on the recent call for a greater EU-level copyright harmonisation project, by discussing the history of copyright harmonisation in the European Union. 

Events

Eleonora Rosati invited the IPKat readers to join her on the 1st December at Bird&Bird in Brussels for the event entitled “Technological governance at the crossroads: the present and future of EU copyright law”.