- Book review: Assessing Intellectual Property Compliance in Contemporary ChinaWith great interest in China’s IP system and its WTO commitments, Dr. Kristie Thomas in her book Assessing Intellectual Property Compliance in Contemporary China offers an interdisciplinary analysis of China’s compliance with the TRIPS Agreement using theories originating from international relations and law.This Kat’s attention was caught by reading that ... Read More
- Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot No Longer Requires Answering Along With a Motion to DismissEffective December 1, 2018, the Northern District’s Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot (“MIDP”) no longer requires that a defendant answer along with filing a Fed. R. Civ. P. 12 motion to dismiss, including fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim. For the first eighteen ... Read More
- EPO’s Administrative Council powerless to amend the EPC: The latest on T 1063/18The IPKat recently reported on the EPO board of appeal decision on the patentability of plant products produced by essentially biological processes, a decision mired in political controversy. The Board ruled that Rule 28(2) EPC, excluding plant products produced by essentially biological processes from patentability was void in view of the ... Read More
- Competitor can’t stop allegedly false promotion of unapproved substances bearing CYA “not for human use” warningsNutrition Distribution LLC v. Pep Research, LLC, 2019 WL 652391, No. 16cv2328-WQH-BLM (S.D. Cal. Feb. 15, 2019)Nutrition Distribution sued Pep for false advertising under the Lanham Act, alleging that its competitor, a supplement company, falsely advertised certain prescription-only drugs and synthetic peptides as “research peptides and chemicals” that are “not ... Read More
- ICANN and the New Top-Level Domains: Feb. 25 conference at AU-WCLICANN and the New Top-Level DomainsAmerican University Washington College of Law, Room NT01Monday, February 25, 20191:30-5:30pmWe are in the midst of an historic expansion of internet domain names with more than 1200 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) now competing with ... Read More
- Digitized images of works in the public domain: what rights vest in them? Analysis of the recent BGH Reiss-Engelhorn judgment – Part 2Ress-Engelhorn MuseenA few days ago the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) released the full text of its recent judgment concerning protection of digitized versions of public domain images. The IPKat is delighted to host, in two posts, the analysis provided by Tobias Lutzi (Research Fellow at the University of ... Read More
- Digitized images of works in the public domain: what rights vest in them? Analysis of the recent BGH Reiss-Engelhorn judgment – Part 1Reiss-Engelhorn MuseenA few days ago the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) released the full text of its recent judgment concerning protection of digitized versions of public domain images. The IPKat is delighted to host, in two posts, the analysis provided by Tobias Lutzi (Research Fellow at the University of ... Read More
- ‘Glen Buchenbach’ is a misleading indication, Hamburg Court rules
