Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week

Did the last week of IPKat pass you by? Here is the 110th edition of Never Too Late with what you missed.

* Life after Cartier: The future of blocking injunctions – Simmons & Simmons Rapid Response EventKatfriend Jonathan Sharples looks back at our rapid response event discussing the Cartier decision and the availability of blocking injunctions to prevent trade mark infringement.

* Article 8(3) of the InfoSoc Directive mandates a substantive change, says Irish Court of Appeal

The InfoSoc Directive was found to introduce changes allowing graduated response systems as a form of injunction - independently of a finding of their liability, said Hogan J in Sony Music Entertainment Ireland Ltd & Ors v UPC Communications Ireland Ltd. Eleonora Rosati explains the judgment and its place in the context of EU law.

* Wednesday Whimsies

New EUIPO research on infringing business models, ITMA's Autumn seminar, UNION-IP events and more...

*  Court Fees - Do you know what to pay? 

Andy Lee brings us an example of paying non-monetary issue fees (in relation to infringement) in practice, in this guest post. 

*  Bad and Good News for Bio-Pharmaceutical Patenting in the United States

The US Supreme Court refused to review a big case concerning patentability of a diagnostic method - but on the bright side the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may have just cleared up some uncertainty to the Alice/Mayo test. Mike Mireles explains all.

*  After the split: so is it HP, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise or what?

Neil Wilkof ponders the legacy of brands following a corporate split or acquisition. 

 

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Never too late 109 [week ending on Sunday 17 August] EPLAW mock trials | CJEU "flat rate" reimbursement of legal fees in C-57/15 | Transmission or retransmission? | Judgement in Actavis v ICOS | Collective management of copyright for images displayed by search engines | Corporates and #Rio2016 | Global branding

Never too late 108 [week ending on Sunday 10 August] Limerick Competition - the results | UK finally speaks out about the "facts" of IP post Brexit| Is "Deadwood really cluttering up trade mark registers? | Weekly roundup: Friday Fun 

Never too late 107 [week ending on Sunday 31 July] Article 28 declarations |Costs of ISP blocking injunctions |Friday Fantasies, featuring legal challenges to Brexit and  more |Huawei v Samsung |Hospira v Genentech |Questions on Article 3(b) SPC referred to CJEU |Book Review: Trade Secret Protection |Pokémon Go

Never too late 106 [week ending on Sunday 24 July] | Innovation & IPRs in China & India: Book Review | Paris Tribunal rejects request to filter 'torrent' searches on Bing | Red colour mark reinstated in Germany | Update on Napp v Dr Reddy & Sandoz Litgation | Patent jurisdiction tussle in Rhodia v Molycorp | Decision on ISP liability from Rome | Copyright in the Animal Kingdom