The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Some months ago, this Kat reported on the Advocate General’s (AG) Opinion in case C-579/23 P. It concerns the competence of the European Commission (Commission) when scrutinising applications for geographical indications (GIs) that it receives from the Member States. Now that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has issued its ruling this case returns to The IPKat’s pages: while the CJEU mostly aligned with the AG, it did so with an important twist!

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Nintendo is doing everything in its power to stop the public from playing pirated games on the Switch console. This involves sending a steady stream of cease and desist letters and takedown notices. If those don’t work, Nintendo is prepared to go to court as well. Nintendo Sues r/SwitchPirates Mod In July, Nintendo filed a lawsuit at a Washington federal court against Arizona-resident J.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here [ This post is authored by Yukta Chordia. Yukta is a 4th year BA LLB (Hons.) student at Maharashtra National Law University, Nagpur and is passionate about Intellectual Property Law and Media and Entertainment Law, with a strong interest in ADR. Her previous post can be accessed here. ] The Controller of Patents, Kolkata, on 3 rd October, 2024, rejected the patent application for an HIV drug- Dolutegravir by VIIV Healthcare and Shionogi & Co.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

A recent decision of the Fifth Board of Appeal (the Board) of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) found that there was no likelihood of confusion between two pictures of elderly men's faces, even though there were both registered as European Union Trade Marks (EUTMs) in respect of the same goods. Background In December 2020, Tenuta Ulisse Società Agricola s.n.c. di Antonio Ulisse e C.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Recently, the Indian Patent Office rejected a patent application by UPL Ltd. for lack of sufficient disclosure mandated under Section 10(4) of the Patents Act. In the context of this order, SpicyIP intern Deepali Vashist discusses the disclosure requirement under the Patents Act and what it means for the larger patent bargain. Deepali is a third-year law student at NLSIU Bangalore.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Originally posted 2007-07-12 08:52:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterVia Marty, the Top Ten Alcohol Icons. Oddly, they don’t include any of these icons. From a strictly trademark point of view, also, I also am not sure I agree with the selection. The post Bottoms up appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit’s 2012 decision in Thorner v. Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC , 669 F.3d 1362 (Fed. Cir. 2012) has become one of the court’s most cited cases from the past 15 years. In fact, the decision has over 9,000 citations since being released 12 years ago (according to Westlaw search). The case did not really make new ground, but is most often cited for Judge Moore’s statement of the clear boundaries for when courts can permissibly deviate

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Patent enthusiasts will be excited to know that a comprehensive commentary on Patent Law, authored by Adarsh Ramanujan (incidentally, a former blogger with SpicyIP), is set to be released on December 4, 2024! Adarsh is an Advocate and a Patent Agent who has also authored “ Patent Law Cases and Materials: A Synthesis For India “ Please read below for the details of the launch event of his latest book.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

by Dennis Crouch In a prior post, I focused on President Elect Trump's nomination of Howard Lutnick as Commerce Secretary, but the most direct impact for the patent system will be the upcoming nomination of the next USPTO Director. Dennis Crouch, Howard Lutnick and the Patent System , Patently-O (November 25, 2024). Like the Secretary of Commerce, the Director (who is also Undersecretary of Commerce) must also be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate under 35 U.S.C. § 3.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Diplomatic Conference to Conclude and Adopt a Design Law Treaty – Plenary Sessions. Image from here [ This post is authored by SpicyIP intern Kartikeya Srivastava. Kartikeya is a second-year law student in the LL.B. course at NLSIU Bangalore. Having freelanced as a patent research analyst, he developed an interest in patent prosecution and in exploring the Patents Act through various interpretative approaches.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Image from here IP Court watchers will be pleased to know that the Delhi High Court’s IP Division has published the 2023-24 edition of its Annual Report ! The second report (hereinafter referred to as ‘the report’) gives a summary of the number of cases disposed of, freshly instituted, and pending before the IPD. Praharsh had written about the first report published in April 2023.

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