Never Equally Good Late: If Yous Missed The Ipkat Final Week!

Been away as well as desire to grab upwardly on in conclusion week's IP news? No problem! As always, the IPKat squad is hither to convey you lot a quick summary: hither comes the 117th edition of Never Too Late.

The Commission's DSMS as well as CJEU instance law: what relationship?

The European Union Commission unveiled its minute copyright bundle on Sep.14. Not surprisingly, the DSM Directive has attracted the greatest attention. Besides those “much has been said” discussions, Eleonora Rosati brings you lot her concerns as well as arguments on the human relationship betwixt the DSM Directive as well as the existing trunk of instance police delineate of the CJEU.

* Generic marks equally valuable commercial information

Due to its inconsistency amongst merchandise mark’s “origin indication” function, beingness generic is commonly a “oh hell no!” for trademark practitioners. Well, it is non e'er the instance for actual line concern owners who of class lay profits-seeking first. In this article, Neil Wilkof explains his insights on the commercial informative value of generic marks past times depicting a nostalgic storey of “a Men’s Store inwards Mid 19th Century”.

* Other people's computers

The excitement as well as conveniences that the Internet of Things (IoT) brings come upwardly amongst high prices, such equally the vulnerability to hacking, privacy concerns as well as consumer rights. Debates are so heating up. In this article, Nicola Searle brings her brilliant reports of the GikII conference (Sep. 30, at London) which is “full of ~~terrifying nightmares~~fascinating anecdotes” amongst a affect of humour.

* Compared to Svensson, GS Media is non thatbad later all

Well it’s genuinely non that bad. Until something worse happens… insights from IPKat Alberto Bellan on the Svensson as well as GS Media cases.

* Introducing our novel InternKats!

A warm welcome to the novel InternKats: Hayleigh Bosher, Tian Lu as well as Verónica Rodríguez Arguijo!

* C-223/15: no EU-wide confusion, no EU-wideinjunction

Mark Schweizer brings us an analysis of the fresh CJEU’s sentence on Combit/Commit (Sep. 22).

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