Back-to-school season has returned, bringing fresh notebooks, growing shopping lists and, perhaps, less time for IP news. This Kat, meanwhile, admired the aesthetic on Pinterest while catching up on the summer goals she had expertly procrastinated. Here is what you may have missed.
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Copyright
Katfriend Alberto Godioli
examined what the ODEE–Samherji dispute and its missed Strasbourg chapter revealed about culture jamming, parody and the uneasy balance between copyright and freedom of expression.
Patents and Plant Variety Rights
Claire Gregg
analysed an Australian Patent Office decision in which unclear agreements and evidentiary gaps left a patent entitlement claim on shaky ground.
Jocelyn Bosse
explored the UK’s negotiations for possible unitary plant variety protection with the EU and the legal questions stirred by this potential post-Brexit reunion.
Trade marks
Marcel Pemsel
analysed how Angry Birds crashed into a bad-faith dispute before the EUIPO’s Board of Appeal and considered what the decision suggested about the relationship between reputation, free-riding and bad faith.
