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Around the IP Blogs

The IPKat

It's time for a weekly review of posts from the surrounding IP blogs over the past week! This article provides an overview of the current trends in the U.S. Marks IP has reported on the background to the dispute and the JPO's decision on the invalidity action. The IPKat has reported on a few of them below.

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A Closer Insight into Copyright related Issues in the Position Statement of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition on the Commission’s Proposal for a Data Act

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, the tension between the new rules introduced by the Data Act Proposal and potential intellectual property protection, including copyright protection, will require further coordination efforts. This post focuses on selected copyright and related rights matters that the Institute details in its Position Statement.

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Copyright Protection For Databases In India

IP and Legal Filings

Sui generis protection does not exist in India because the government believes that the Copyright Act’s current level of protection is adequate and that a need for further protection has not yet arisen. In addition to this, numerous other sections address various facets of upholding database rights.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat the past 2 weeks!

The IPKat

DESIGNS The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (OLG Düsseldorf) sent a referral to the CJEU (Case C-684/21) on the role of alternative designs in the examination of Article 8(1) of Regulation 6/2002. Reminder: last call to vote for your best IP book of 2021 by participating in the poll here !

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Please share nicely — From Database directive to Data (governance) acts

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The consultation document restates the fundamental right to intellectual property as the fundamental principle of ‘protection of the intellectual creations of individuals in the online space’ but is otherwise silent on IP. Stage I: to the Open data directive. and not charging fees for re-use. 1(6) Open data directive).

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Swedish court applies C-762/19 CV-Online Latvia in parking app battle

The IPKat

The CJEU’s recognition of the added value for customers that content aggregators can create, and the refined and subtle (while perhaps not totally clear) balancing act suggested by the decision, makes CV-Online Latvia an important addition to the CJEU’s database right jurisprudence.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2023

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the second trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this series, every three months we update you on what has happened in EU copyright law. According to the AG, it follows from Article 297 TFEU that EU law is, in principle, not capable of benefiting from copyright protection.