Book Review: Kerly’s Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names

Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names is considered the leading text on trade marks and trade names, having provided expert guidanc...

3-second cinematic sequence sufficiently distinctive to be a trade mark, says EUIPO Fifth Board of Appeal

Nusret Gökçe, nicknamed Salt Bae (the applicant), is a Turkish chef who owns ‘Nusr-Et’, a chain of steak houses. His art of cooking and pre...

Criminal conviction over disparaging religious doctrines not a violation of freedom of expression: potential IP implications of the latest ECtHR ruling

A few days ago the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued yet another interesting judgment, which - albeit not directly related to IP...

The drumbeat gets louder: is anti-competitive conduct trumping innovation as the foundation for high tech dominance?

Dangling at the end of a column that appeared in the October 6th issue of The Economist (“Bought and paid for”) are the following provocat...

Report from 2018 Annual Meeting of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association

The Annual Conference of the European Policy for Intellectual Property Association always brings together leading IP scholars and this year...

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...