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Trade Marks and GIs
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Anastasiia Kyrylenko commented on the decision of AFNIC (the French country-code top-level domain name registrar) to transfer 'porcelainefrancaisedelimoges.fr' to the owners of the French geographical indication (GI) ‘Porcelaine de Limoges’, even though the domain name was registered before the GI.
Patents and Plant Varieties
Rose Hughes discussed a recent American case, K-fee v Nespresso. The case addressed the well-established US principle of file wrapper estoppel and confirmed that prosecution history from other jurisdictions (in this case, the European file history) could be used to narrow the meaning of a term in the patent claims.
This Kat reviewed the decisions from the Italian Corte Suprema di Cassazione last year, which clarified how the IP office should approach the assessment of novelty and distinctness of plant varieties where the application for protection was made after the relevant priority period had expired.
Copyright
Eleonora Rosati informed readers about the upcoming event on 1 February at Fordham Law School, NYC, entitled 'Transatlantic Dialogue on Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union'. There's lots of great speakers on the agenda (including Eleonora Rosati herself). Readers can find details and registration here.
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