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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 ...

Around the IP blogs!

Take a trip around the IP blogs with IPKat! Highlights this week include a David versus Goliath trade mark battle in Norway, implications of...

Wednesday Whimsies

Happy Wednesday IPKat readers! Here is a list of upcoming events and some news to start the week: Events The University of Southampton will ...

Lord Kitchin applies the "markedly different" infringement approach in Actavis v Eli Lilly in Icescape v Ice-World

Since the landmark UK Supreme Court decision in Actavis v Eli Lilly ( [2017] UKSC 48 ), judges of the lower courts have voiced the need for ...