Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week!

Too busy carving those jack-o'-lanterns? No worries, if you missed last week’s IPKat highlights, the 203 rd edition of Never Too Late ...

Auctioning Art(ificial Intelligence): The IP implications of Edmond de Belamy

The IPKat has had his portrait painted by the AmeriKat - raising another issue of non-human authorship/ownership In the AmeriKat's free ...

Interested in EU copyright or EU trade secrets? Here are two other events for you, with Kat-discounts

Conference season is in full swing, and our friends at the ERA Academy of European Law wish to let The IPKat know about two events that come...

What can be the main events in the life of a copyright work in Europe? Here's another map

A few weeks ago, I published a map - that I created for my students - detailing the main potential events in the life of an EU/national tra...

Discount codes available for IPKat readers interested in copyright or in pharma law

It's conference season also for Kats The IPKat is happy to remind readers about two forthcoming events, devoted to copyright law and to ...

ChIPs London Event: Take your seat at the bench - An evening with the IP/Tech Judges

Hot on the heels of the ChIPs Global Summit in D.C. a couple of weeks ago (more reports to come), is news of the London Chapter's next e...

Chinese Supreme Court: hoarding trade marks in bad faith falls within scope of “illegitimate means”

In a retrial proceeding (No 4191 [2017], Petition, Administrative Division, SPC, 29 June 2018, the Chinese desicion can be found here ), the...

Australia considers reform of its website blocking regime, including possibility to target search engines and new types of injunctions

As readers will know, over the past few years, Australia has considered or has introduced a number of changes to its copyright law. The late...

Swedish Court orders ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay and other Torrent sites

Earlier this year, the Swedish Patent and Market Court was requested to issue an injunction against Swedish internet service provider  Telia...

AG Szpunar advises CJEU to rule that copyright cannot subsist in military report in important fundamental rights case

Freedom of the press Last year The IPKat reported on two new important referrals to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from ...