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

The IPKat

Here they are in case you missed them: TRADE MARKS Katfriend Marijus Dingilevskis posted on a recent decision of the Lithuanian Supreme Court, which states that even if a trade mark has been registered in the international register for 40 years, this is no guarantee that a subsequent national designation will be also registered.

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Does food flavouring constitute a “work”?

LexBlog IP

He worked for large companies, active worldwide in the food industry, which specialised in the design and development of recipes and culinary products for industrial use. Articles 4(1) and (3) concern the individual powers of the author on moral rights and article 12(2) concerns the transfer of intellectual rights (property and moral).

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[Guest post] New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights

The IPKat

Here's what Kateryna and Liubov write : New Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights by Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk Last year, the Ukrainian copyright reform got on its fast track. In July the Ukrainian parliament approved one of the legislative proposals on copyright and related rights as a basis.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 4 of 4: Copyright contract law and enforcement

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These provisions served as, among other things, models for Articles 18 and 20 in the new DSM Copyright Directive (2019/790). In this context, the BGH issued a decision in 2014 in relation to the games console, Nintendo DS. The BGH assumed that an infringement of the related right of the film producer had occurred.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In order to bring readers up to date on earlier developments, over the next few days we will be republishing in four parts an article (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law from 2015 to 2019 organised by topic. This first part covers the definition of a work, authorship and moral rights.