Around the IP Blogs
As usual, here is the IPKat's overview of news reported Around the IP Blogs!
This week's Copycat (part one and part two) of the 1709 Blog, brings us a polyhedric collection of copyright issues, among others, Eminem suing a political party for infringement, concerns in the pagan community and the staggering pirating of books in Nigeria. Enjoy!
Proposed press publishers’ right: a workable solution? IPKat's own Eleonora reports on the JIPLP Blog an article excerpt by Dr. Pihlajarinne. The article focusses on the implications of the proposed Copyright in a Digital Single Market by the EU Commission, namely the difficulty of reusing news content without committing an infringement.
Marques blog reports on two interesting trade mark disputes, one concerning the pun intended wine names in the Netherlands, ZoMerlot and Summerlot. The other, a Finnish Supreme Court trade mark ruling concerning three dimensional marks and likelihood of confusion between goods.
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Onto more practical issues, IP Draughts in Transactions in IP: an incoherent, statutory mess, points out at the incoherences and shortcomings of the provisions regulating IP transactions in the UK and also raises some important questions on the matter.
Is Article 3(d) of the SPC Regulation to be interpreted as permitting the grant of an SPC where the marketing authorisation referred to in Article 3(b) is the first authorisation within the scope of the basic patent to place the product on the market as a medicinal product and where the product is a new formulation of an old active ingredient? The SPC Blog reminds about the Call for comments for C-443/17 (Abraxis Bioscience), open until Wednesday, September 6th
Looking at some news, the beloved William Sanford Nye (a.k.a. Bill Nye the Science Guy) files suit against Disney, Buena Vista for millions in underreported licensing payments.
And finally, if you need a quick hairdo for the busy back-to-school time, the Blog du Droit Européen des Brevets selected this deviceas invention of the week. Revolutionary? We shall see!
Image credits: Inga Volkosh
