Copyright
Eleonora Rosati commented on the recent CJEU judgment in Institutul G. Călinescu, C‑649/23, which deals with the copyright subsistence of critical editions.
Katfriend Federica Pezza explored the recent case law on the copyright protection of works of applied art in Europe.
Oliver Fairhurst walked us through the Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence published by the UK’s Departments for Science, Innovation and Technology and Culture, Media and Sport.
Trade Marks
Marcel Pemsel analysed the EU’s approach to determining genuine use for local establishments, following the General Court’s recent decision in Altendorfer v EUIPO, T‑297/25.
Patents
Claire Gregg reviewed two recent decisions of the Federal Court of Australia that indicate the court may be shifting toward granting more preliminary injunctions in pharmaceutical patent cases.
Plant Variety Rights
Jocelyn Bosse examined how the UK court’s reasoning in the Nadorcott case diverged from the UPOV Expert Study’s later‑published view on when plant variety rights extend to harvested material.
Artificial Intelligence
Georgia Jenkins discussed Anthropic’s recent public statement alleging IP infringement via model distillation by DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, placing the issue within wider debates about intellectual property and the competitive dynamics of the AI market.
News, Event and Opportunities
Katfriends Marion Consoli and Léonard Diambrini Palazzi covered the annual IP conference, Journée de droit de la propriété intellectuelle (JDPI), which this year focused on intellectual property issues in the video game industry.
Claire Gregg reported on IP Australia’s recently released consultation paper on proposed IP regulatory reforms, with the window for filing submissions remaining open until 2 April 2026.
Eleonora Rosati updated us that the Retromark conference has been rescheduled and will now take place on 23 June 2026.
Eleonora Rosati informed us also about the Annual Conference on European Media Law, taking place on 7-8 May 2026 in Trier and online, with IPKat readers being eligible for a 20% discount using the code IPKAT2026ERA.
Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo highlighted (here and here) a range of miscellaneous developments, events, and opportunities from the IP world.
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