Patent & IP news for December 26, 2016

Swedish Patent and Registration Office refuses registration of figurative mark because contrary to morality and public order from ipkitten.blogspot.com

The applicant's signIs a figurative sign representing a hand with a raised middle finger contrary to morality and public order?
This is the question that the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (PRV) had ...

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App developers matter: Apple should fight Nokia with all its might but not leverage its App Store against Withings from www.fosspatents.com

Before the Christmas weekend, Apple and Nokia went back to legal war against each other, more than five years after a settlement. I agree with Apple that Nokia's industrial-scale privateering is highly abusive, and ...

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Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that sport broadcasts are not protected by copyright from ipkitten.blogspot.com

Back in 2015 this blog reported and commented [here and here] on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in C More, a reference for a preliminary ruling from the ...

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Conference & CLE Calendar from www.patentdocs.org

January 4, 2017 - "Parallel Patent Proceedings After Murata, Skyhawke and Shaw: Navigating Claim Construction, Estoppel, RPI, Stays and More" (Strafford) - 1:00 to 2:30 pm (EST) January 10, 2017 - "The BPCIA Patent Dance - What ...

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