Never Too Late: if you missed the IPKat last week!

The 201^stedition of Never Too Late is here to bring you up to speed on the latest and greatest of the IPKat world! Today’s highlights include no-deal Brexit analysis, event reports, copyright in fireworks, logos and even football trophies! And for Kat’s sake – what is ‘Fiverrization’?!

IPR Melting Pot

The UK Government has issued a number of technical notices relating to IPR’s in a no-Brexit scenario. In UK copyright in a no-deal Brexit scenario: what will happen?, Kat Eleonora Rosati reviews Copyright if there’s no Brexit deal. GuestKat Rosie Burbidge sheds light onto the exhaustion of rights (No deal Brexit - what does it mean for exhaustion of rights?), patents (No deal Brexit - what will happen to patents - particularly SPCs and the UPC?), and registered Community designs and trade marks (No deal Brexit - what does it mean for registered Community designs and trade marks).

GuestKat Mathilde Pavis provides her insights about a new phenomenon/business model-- ‘Fiverrization’ and what effect it might have on the creative industries: Will there be a “Fiverrization” of the creative industries?

Kat Neil Wilkof provides a summary ofthe First Plenary Session (“Anchoring Innovation: The Future of IP Organisations”) of the 2018 edition of Singapore’s IPWeek @ SG: IP Offices still searching for (the holy grail) of innovation and incentives: the view from IPWeek @ SG

Cancun Kats

Kat friend Richard Vary (Bird & Bird) provides on hand reports from this year's AIPPI Congress is in Cancun, Mexico: AIPPI Congress Report 1: Standard essential patents – maximizing value before enforcement; AIPPI Congress Report 2: Out of term - provisional and post term patent enforcement; AIPPI Congress Report 3: Hot topics in IP; and AIPPI Congress Report 4: A balancing act - copyright versus other rights.

Patents

Kat friend Constance Leong describes a fast-track patent scheme launched by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore to accelerate innovation for finance sector inventions: How Singapore Is Fast-Tracking FinTech Patent Applications (and making more "Crazy Rich Asians"?)

Copyright

Guest contributor Akshat Agrawal analyses copyright protection in fireworks displays. In particular, he considers the notion against a backdrop of material expression, fixation and dramatic works, and raises questions of unity, certainty, enforceability and public policy. Evolving concepts of work and sustainability of copyright: the curious case of curated fireworks displays.

GuestKat Nedim Malovic discusses a recent refusal by the US Copyright Office Review Board  to register Vodafone’s Speechmark logo on the ground that it is not sufficiently original: US Copyright Office Review Board denies registration of ‘Vodafone Speechmark’.

On a similar note, a Euro Trophy – a silver-pedestaled vase with handles, long neck, and lip – did not meet the test of originality and was denied copyright protection by the US Copyright Office Review Board. Nedim Malovic, After UEFA’s Starball logo, also the EURO Trophy has been denied copyright registration.

GuestKat Frantzeska Papadopolou reports on a recent ruling issued by Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal. The decision considers the protection of copyright-protected works when these are used as evidence as part of a court proceeding: Using copyright-protected material as evidence in a court proceeding.

The Paris Tribunal has considered a case brought by the French Consumers’ Association against Twitter and declared ‘null and void’ most of the Twitter’s T&C clauses, including the copyright licensing provisions for user-generated content. GuestKat Mathilde Pavis has more: Paris tribunal guts Twitter’s T&Cs… including the copyright clause for user-generated content

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