If last week had you briefly consider a return to pandemic-era survival instincts, the IPKat still managed to keep things intellectually contagious. Here’s what you might have missed.
Patents
Simone Lorenzi
explored a surprising decision from the Court of Venice that challenged the widely accepted understanding of the UPC transitional period, raising uncomfortable questions about whether national courts are really available without a formal opt-out.
Rose Hughes
explored a recent Board of Appeal decision navigating the difficult space between medical device patents and Europe’s exclusions on surgical methods, showing how claim wording, and even the description itself, can end up shaping patentability.
Rose Hughes
navigated the increasingly crowded LNP IP landscape, moving from the legacy of COVID-19 vaccine litigation to the next generation of cell and gene therapies, where patents, trade secrets and billion-dollar acquisitions are already colliding.
IPKat Book of the Year Awards
Jocelyn Bosse
announced the winners of the IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2025, with this year’s titles selected by a new expert jury across patents, copyright, designs, trade marks/GIs and broader IP scholarship.
Miscellany
Georgia Jenkins
ushered in May with Sunday Surprises, gathering a spring calendar of WIPO events, summer schools, calls for papers and IP news, from women in innovation to sports-related IP and the latest Special 301 Report.
