Intellectual Property
Here’s a look at today’s Interesting IP for Thursday 26th January 2017.
Top Stories include:
- Apple Sues Qualcom in China
- The ASAI is planning on cracking down on paid adverts in Irish Blogs
- Donald Trump Does some more mad stuff
The Kit Kat decision is in! So is the shape of the bar capable of registration or what?
There’s been a case rumbling along for a while now involving Nestle and Cadbury which (and I’m over simplifying massively here) the shape of Kit Kat bars was in issue. The history of the case and the dispute is infinitely more complicated than that, and worthy of a separate blog post, but for now
Check out the IPKat’s post on it here – http://ipkitten.blogspot.ie/2015/09/breaking-news-cjeu-says-that-acquired.html
And the CJEU Judgement (all 68 pages of it) here – http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=167821&pageIndex=0&doclang=EN&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=502951
The Under Armour Trade Mark Case, as seen through the eyes of the IPKat!
I blogged a few days ago about this case taken by Under Armour against a religious based clothing line. Here’s the IPKat’s take on the whole issue…
http://ipkitten.blogspot.ie/2015/08/armors-glory-and-religion-in-trade-mark.html